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Family name origins & meanings
- Ukrainian and Belorussian : patronymic from the personal name Yurko, a pet form of Yury or Yura, eastern Slavic equivalents of George.
- Jewish (from Bessarabia) : habitational name for someone from Yurkovtsy in Ukraine.
- Americanized spelling of Croatian Jurković or Slovenian Jurkovič ‘son of George’ (see Jurkovich).