Jurek
A Slavic name meaning "farmer, one who works the land," and a variant of Jerzy. Fewer than 400 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never have met one.
Jurek Pronunciation
Jurek is pronounced YOO-rek (/ˈjurɛk/).
What Jurek means
Where Jurek comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jurek began as the everyday shape of Jerzy, the name a boy answers to among friends when the christened form feels too formal. The longer name reaches back to the Greek georgos, farmer or earthworker. Its Slavic sound gave Jurek its softer ending, and the variants Jurij and Jerzy stand close beside it.
That farmer's sense is old. Georgos binds ge, the earth, to ergon, work, and the pairing passed down into Jurek unchanged. A boy listed as Jurek in the class register answers to a word for the man who tends the ground, though few pause to unpack it. On the calendar he keeps the name day of Jerzy, the twenty-third of April.
So Jurek means the earthworker, and its fuller forms, Jurij and Jerzy, keep the same soil beneath them.
How many people are named Jurek
1 in 54178 men in Poland is named Jurek. 394 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1496 among male names.
Jurek's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jurek as a middle name
Jurek is a first name for 394 men in Poland and a middle name for another 226, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 465th, between Philippe (227) and Tyberiusz (224).
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#463 Dobiesław228
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#464 Philippe227
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#465 Jurek226
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#466 Tyberiusz224
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#467 Ahmad223