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Yuren vs Yuri

American parents have registered 6,224 Yuris since 1880, against 57 Yurens. Yuri is still ahead, with 227 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yuren against Yuri, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yuren Yuri

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Yuri has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Yuren had 28 and Yuri had 143.

Side by side

  Yuren Yuri
Total US births 576,224
Most in one year 28273
Babies in 2025 under 5227
Estimated living today 606,000
Median age today 1717
Peak year 20082022
Best rank 3,744th boys1,309th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,525th
First recorded 20071919
Girls / boys 0 / 573,769 / 2,455

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Yuren and Yuri.