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The first name 
Yuri

Yuri is a name for all genders, somewhat more commonly used for girls.

Yuri – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Yuri in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 children are currently called Yuri. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Yuri at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Yuri is number *** on the list of most common first names.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Yuri

Yuri -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Yuri did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Yuri seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,825, 271 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Yuri, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Yuri was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Yuri has 4 letters 
and begins with a Y

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.

With four letters, the name Yuri is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Since 1.6% of all first names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial.

Other names with 
Y, u, r and i

If you take all the letters in the name Yuri – Y, u, r and i – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Yiru or Riyu.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Yuri

If your name is Yuri and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Yuri

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yuri, you can simply say:

Yoyo

Unicorn

Rocket

Igloo

This is how the name Yuri is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Yuri in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Yuri

Yuri

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Yuri

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Yuri is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Y
U
R
I

Have you ever waved the name Yuri

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Y
U
R
I

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yuri sounds like this: