Meaning not yet researched.
Zuri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 932 in 2025. Its best rank was #194 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #194 in 2022; #329 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Zuri in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#329 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #194.
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Zuri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 932 girls in 2025. Peak: #194 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 1,523 (2022).
In 2025, 932 US girls were named Zuri, making it the 329th most common girls’ name of the year, down 54 places from #275 in 2024. That is 216 fewer than the 1,148 girls named Zuri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #194, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,523. For comparison, it was #443 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zuri in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 17,614 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,955 babies named Zuri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,858 US girls were named Zuri; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,523. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,725 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zuri ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #63 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Suri (3,512 babies since 1880) and Sury (1,543 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zury, Zori and Zuria are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zury (796), Zori (788), Zuria (500), Zuriah (472), Zurie (435), Zoria (416), Zurii (204), Surie (182), Zuree (109), Zurri (108), Zorie (97), Zuriya (88), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zuri in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 11 | #63 | #76 |
| Georgia | 86 | #106 | #200 |
| Maryland | 37 | #125 | #335 |
| Alabama | 26 | #176 | #547 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #207 | #280 |
| North Carolina | 53 | #208 | #310 |
| Virginia | 36 | #227 | #313 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #230 | #393 |
| Nevada | 12 | #234 | #655 |
| Florida | 78 | #247 | #380 |
| South Carolina | 20 | #264 | #367 |
| Illinois | 40 | #267 | #342 |
| New Jersey | 27 | #311 | #385 |
| Indiana | 22 | #332 | #445 |
| New York | 51 | #333 | #385 |
| Kansas | 10 | #360 | #739 |
| Michigan | 24 | #373 | #721 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #383 | #420 |
| Missouri | 16 | #385 | #443 |
| Ohio | 30 | #389 | #321 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #392 | #579 |
| Texas | 84 | #401 | #579 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #402 | #236 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #404 | — |
| Tennessee | 19 | #431 | #330 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #481 | — |
| Arizona | 14 | #514 | #841 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #517 | #847 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #563 | — |
| Iowa | 6 | #564 | — |
| California | 58 | #564 | #923 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #658 | #1,019 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #696 | #759 |
| Utah | 6 | #703 | #423 |
| Washington | 8 | #810 | #764 |
| Colorado | 6 | #906 | #606 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 932 | #329 | 17 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 1,148 | #275 | 22 | #4,700 |
| 2023 | 1,481 | #203 | 31 | #3,711 |
| 2022 | 1,523 | #194 | 32 | #3,616 |
| 2021 | 1,443 | #207 | 33 | #3,496 |
| 2020 | 1,268 | #235 | 25 | #4,138 |
| 2019 | 1,183 | #278 | 24 | #4,336 |
| 2018 | 1,132 | #292 | 28 | #3,889 |
| 2017 | 855 | #365 | 11 | #7,545 |
| 2016 | 893 | #364 | 13 | #6,722 |
| 2015 | 714 | #443 | 15 | #5,996 |
| 2014 | 667 | #475 | 12 | #7,045 |
| 2013 | 570 | #524 | 14 | #6,237 |
| 2012 | 438 | #650 | 18 | #5,254 |
| 2011 | 313 | #845 | 20 | #4,821 |
| 2010 | 259 | #982 | 15 | #6,034 |
| 2009 | 238 | #1,076 | 15 | #6,094 |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,096 | 14 | #6,391 |
| 2007 | 213 | #1,193 | 26 | #4,010 |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,423 | 19 | #4,863 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,523 | 14 | #5,874 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,678 | 15 | #5,491 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,202 | 24 | #3,731 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,112 | 34 | #2,816 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,699 | 27 | #3,320 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,215 | 12 | #5,918 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,423 | 27 | #3,102 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,460 | 22 | #3,485 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,510 | 19 | #3,737 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,629 | 15 | #4,395 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,551 | 16 | #4,051 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,584 | 16 | #4,093 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,416 | 5 | #10,169 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,385 | 8 | #6,669 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,355 | 7 | #7,269 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,798 | 10 | #5,381 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,118 | 10 | #5,164 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,215 | 12 | #4,161 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,492 | 7 | #6,088 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,140 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,516 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,391 | 6 | #6,248 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,209 | 10 | #4,067 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,749 | 16 | #2,798 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,887 | 5 | #6,860 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,155 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,618 | 6 | #5,463 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,774 | 8 | #4,189 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,579 | 5 | #5,877 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,645 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).