Iurii
A Russian and Ukrainian spelling of the Slavic name, from a root for "earth-worker" or farmer. Around 2,900 people in Poland carry it, almost all of them men, and registries have logged no newborns given it lately.
Iurii Pronunciation
Iurii is pronounced YOOR-yee (/ˈjurji/).
What Iurii means
Where Iurii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iurii is how the East Slavic name reaches the Latin alphabet, a transliteration of the Ukrainian Юрій and the Russian Юрий. The meaning handed down with it is farmer, earth-worker, rolnik in Polish. That sense traveled a long road. It began in the Greek Georgios, from georgos, a man who works the land, and passed through the churches and princes of Kyiv and Moscow before settling into the short form Iurii.
Its bearers gave the name most of its history. Iurii Dolgorukiy, the twelfth-century prince, is credited in the chronicles with founding Moscow around 1147. Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, carried the same name into 1961, when he orbited the Earth once and came back down.
In Poland the close cousin of this name is Jerzy, whose imieniny fall on 23 April, the feast of Saint George. An Iurii, though, keeps his East Slavic spelling on the form at the urząd, the -ii ending intact. The plain fact under all of it holds steady: an earth-worker, a farmer.
How many people are named Iurii
1 in 7283 men in Poland is named Iurii. 2,934 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #595 among male names.
Iurii as a middle name
Iurii is a first name for 2,934 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7945th, between Iuri (2) and Ivaylo (2).
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7943
2Itayi
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7944
2Iuri
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79452Iurii
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7946
2Ivaylo
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7947
2Ivica