Yura
Fewer than 60 people in Poland carry Yura, so most will never meet one. The root is Slavic, from a word for "farmer".
Yura Pronunciation
Yura is pronounced ih-OO-rah (/ɨˈura/).
What Yura means
Where Yura comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yura is the short, familiar form of Yuriy heard across Russian and Ukrainian speech. The longer name goes back to the Greek Georgios. The Greek splits into ge, meaning earth, and ergon, work. That is the source of the meaning "farmer," rolnik in Polish.
Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, went by Yura at home.
In Japan the same three letters spell a different name. It grows from Japanese sounds, unrelated to any Slavic root. The match is coincidence.
Polish keeps its own heir of Georgios: Jerzy, with the everyday Jurek close behind. Jerzy holds his imieniny on 23 April, the feast of Saint George. On a school register, a Yura would sit among those cousins, all of them tracing back to the farmer at the field's edge.
How many people are named Yura
1 in 454174 men in Poland is named Yura. 52 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5239 among male names.