Find out how popular the last name Juri is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Juri.

Juri, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Juri surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Juri in America

Juri is the 141140th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Juri surname appeared 118 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Juri.

We can also compare 2010 data for Juri to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Juri

The surname Juri is of Estonian origin, deriving from the Estonian given name Juri, which is a form of the name George. This name can be traced back to the medieval era in Estonia, which was then part of the broader cultural and linguistic sphere of the Finno-Ugric peoples.

The earliest recorded instances of the surname Juri date back to the 16th century, appearing in church records and land registries in the regions of modern-day northern Estonia and southern Finland. At this time, these areas were under Swedish rule and the name was often rendered in its Swedish spelling, Juri or Jurii.

One of the earliest documented individuals with the surname Juri was Hans Juri, a landowner in the village of Viru-Nigula, Estonia, who was mentioned in tax records from the year 1567. Another notable early bearer of the name was Marten Juri, a farmer and village elder in Ingria (now part of Russia) who was recorded in a census from 1618.

In the 17th century, the surname Juri began to appear in official records from the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. A merchant named Hinrich Juri was listed as a member of the city's guild of traders in 1642. During the same period, a man named Jürgen Juri served as a local magistrate in the town of Haapsalu, Estonia, according to court documents from 1671.

As the surname spread across Estonia and into neighboring regions, it underwent various phonetic and orthographic changes. In some areas, the name was rendered as Jüri, Jürri, or Jürje, reflecting local dialect variations. Nevertheless, the core form of Juri remained prominent throughout the Estonian-speaking territories.

Notable individuals with the surname Juri in later centuries include Johannes Juri (1727-1799), an Estonian poet and author of the first Estonian-language novel, and Karl Gustav Juri (1855-1927), a prominent Estonian architect who designed several landmark buildings in Tallinn.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Juri

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Juri.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Juri was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Juri has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Juri was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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