Juraj
From the Greek for "farmer", one who works the earth, and close kin to Jerzy. In Poland it sits far down the register, near 3,400th: most Poles have never met one.
Juraj Pronunciation
Juraj is pronounced YOO-rahy (/ˈjuraj/).
What Juraj means
Where Juraj comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Juraj comes from the Greek Georgios, built from gē, the earth, and ergon, work. The name meant a farmer, an earth-worker, someone who bent to the soil for a living. That plain occupation traveled far from Greece and settled across the Slavic south, where George became Juraj.
In Poland the same root grew into Jerzy, the form a child hears at the urząd when an official reads his papers aloud. Juraj and Jerzy are two branches from one Greek stem, and both still mean the farmer.
The saint changed the name's weight. Saint George, the dragon-slayer, gave Jerzy his feast on the 23rd of April, and the farmer's title now sat beside a soldier's legend. The meaning of the soil stayed underneath.
A boy called Juraj carries a word older than any of its stories. Its short meaning is rolnik, the one who works the earth.
How many people are named Juraj
1 in 213462 men in Poland is named Juraj. 100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3454 among male names.
Juraj as a middle name
Juraj is a first name for 100 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3586th, between Jur (8) and Jørgen (8).
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#3584 Jos8
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#3585 Jur8
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#3586 Juraj8
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#3587 Jørgen8
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#3588 Kabir8