Jurii
A Slavic name meaning "farmer", one who works the earth, carried chiefly by Ukrainian men. Only about a hundred men in Poland go by it, so most people here have never met one.
Jurii Pronunciation
Jurii is pronounced YOOR-yee (/ˈjurji/).
What Jurii means
Where Jurii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jurii is a Ukrainian name, Slavic in form, and it belongs to the wide family of George. The older layer of that family reaches back to the Greek geōrgos, built from gē, earth, and ergon, work. The short meaning follows from those roots: farmer, earth-worker. A person tied to soil and season.
Saint George rode into legend as a dragon-slayer and soldier. The word beneath his name says something plainer. Georgios meant the man who works the land. Jurii keeps that plain sense in a Ukrainian spelling.
In Poland the same saint gives Jerzy his imieniny on 23 April. A child written as Jurii in a school register sits near that tradition while holding the Ukrainian double i. The name does not promise grandeur. It means earth-worker.
How many people are named Jurii
1 in 187247 men in Poland is named Jurii. 114 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3178 among male names.
Jurii's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jurii as a middle name
Jurii is a first name for 114 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8041st, between Junus (2) and Jurko (2).
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