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Juri

Gender
Girl
Say it
JOO-ree
Origin
Japanese
UK rank, 2025
#5,990 for girls
US rank, 2025
#4,757 for girls

Juri is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 4,757th for girls in the US (28 babies).

What does Juri mean?

Japanese: meaning depends on the kanji used

Japanese name whose meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example ju 'tree' and ri 'village'.

Is Juri a girl's or a boy's name?

Juri is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 28 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Juri in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#5,990among girls
Babies in 2025
3about 1 in 93,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 67% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Juri, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2016, with 6 girls.

In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were given Juri or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,538, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.

2002Busiest: 6 in 20162025
Juri in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20253#5,990
20243#5,966
20234#4,915
20220–
20211#7,491
20200–
20193#5,804
20183#5,896
20171#7,682
20166#3,788
20154#4,951
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20021#5,540

How popular is Juri in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,757among girls
Babies in 2025
28about 1 in 57,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 24% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 28 girls in the US were named Juri, making it the 4,757th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. It first appears in the records in 1982.

2025 had the most girls named Juri of any year since it first appeared, in 1982.

Half of all the girls named Juri in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 92 girls in the US were given Juri or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,800, up from #4,757 for this spelling alone.

1982Busiest: 28 in 20252025
Juri in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202528#4,757
202415#7,247
202313#8,050
202221#5,790
202124#5,233
202012#8,401
201917#6,694
201816#7,096
201712#8,772
20167#12,871
201515#7,610
20146#14,552
201310#10,230
20126#14,956
201110#10,370
201012#9,227
20090–
20087#13,827
20070–
20060–
20055#16,455
20045#16,092
20030–
20020–
20010–
20008#10,738
19990–
19980–
19970–
19968#9,576
19955#13,380
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19885#11,792
19870–
19860–
19855#10,672
19840–
19837#8,045
19827#8,222

Names like Juri

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Juri

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Juri: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/juri, updated 20 October 2026.