In 2025, 100 US girls were named Suri, making it the 1,940th most common girls’ name of the year, down 321 places from #1,619 in 2024. That is 29 fewer than the 129 girls named Suri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,029, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 247. For comparison, it was #1,507 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Suri in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 3,512 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,742 babies named Suri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,290 US girls were named Suri; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 146. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Suri ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #656 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zuri (17,614 babies since 1880), Surya (1,549 babies since 1880) and Sury (1,543 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Suriya, Suriah and Sory are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.