| Milan | Yuri | |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Dear, loving | Farmer |
| Origin | slavic | Slavic |
| Gender | Boy | Boy |
| Pronunciation | MEE-lahn | YOO-ree |
| Syllables | 2 | 2 |
| First appeared | 1885 | 1961 |
| Peak year | 2024 (1,554) | 2022 (93) |
| In 2025 | 1,418 | 88 |
| Trend | Near its peak | Near its peak |
Source: US Social Security Administration.
| Decade | Milan | Yuri |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 7,056 | 507 |
| 2010s | 5,073 | 629 |
| 2000s | 1,248 | 364 |
| 1990s | 831 | 270 |
| 1980s | 439 | 311 |
| 1970s | 451 | 269 |
| 1960s | 432 | 105 |
| 1950s | 537 | 0 |
| 1940s | 529 | 0 |
| 1930s | 617 | 0 |
| 1920s | 881 | 0 |
| 1910s | 479 | 0 |
| 1900s | 24 | 0 |
| 1890s | 5 | 0 |
| 1880s | 6 | 0 |
A Slavic name from the element mil 'kind, dear, loving, gracious', originally a short form of longer Mil- names. (An unrelated South Asian Milan from Sanskrit milana 'union, meeting' also exists; the love sense is the Slavic one.)
Yuri is the Russian form of George, “farmer” or “earth-worker.”
Milan is more popular than Yuri today: about 1,418 US babies were given the name Milan in 2025, compared with 88 named Yuri.
Milan means Dear, loving (slavic origin), while Yuri means Farmer (Slavic origin).
In US records, Milan first appears in 1885 and Yuri in 1961, so Milan has the longer recorded history.