Zuri
Zuri was given to 932 girls in 2025, #329 among girls’ names; 17,614 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,500 Americans named Zuri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zuri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zuri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zuri is “a unisex given name from Swahili, of modern African American usage” Its etymology gives the sense “good” (zuri).
Borrowed from Swahili zuri (“good”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zuri?
#329 among girls’ names, 2025
Zuri rose from #443 in 2015 to #329 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.40 to 0.58 per 1,000.
1,555 babies in 2022, the peak
Zuri peaked in 2022, when 1,555 babies were given it (1,523 girls, #194 among girls’ names). The 949 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 932 | #329 | 0.58 |
| 2024 | 1,148 | #275 | 0.71 |
| 2023 | 1,481 | #203 | 0.92 |
| 2022 | 1,523 | #194 | 0.93 |
| 2021 | 1,443 | #207 | 0.88 |
| 2020 | 1,268 | #235 | 0.78 |
| 2019 | 1,183 | #278 | 0.70 |
| 2018 | 1,132 | #292 | 0.67 |
| 2017 | 855 | #365 | 0.50 |
| 2016 | 893 | #364 | 0.50 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 714 | #443 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 667 | #475 | 0.37 |
| 2013 | 570 | #524 | 0.32 |
| 2012 | 438 | #650 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 313 | #845 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 259 | #982 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 238 | #1,076 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,096 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 213 | #1,193 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,423 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,519 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,674 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,199 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,109 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,695 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,211 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,420 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,457 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,507 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,625 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,546 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,579 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,411 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,380 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,349 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,793 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,113 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,210 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,490 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,382 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,389 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,747 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,885 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,153 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,616 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,577 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,643 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zuri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 17,614 Americans recorded as Zuri, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 932 girls and 17 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zuri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zuri, and how old are they?
17,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 17,614 Americans ever recorded as Zuri. The median Zuri alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 8,403 people named Zuri (7,807 women and girls, 596 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,905 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 652 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zuri born?
The states with the most babies named Zuri are Georgia, Texas and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 86 | #106 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 84 | #401 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 78 | #247 | 1.1× |
| California | 58 | #564 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 53 | #208 | 1.3× |
| New York | 51 | #333 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 40 | #267 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 37 | #125 | 1.9× |
| Virginia | 36 | #227 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 30 | #389 | 0.8× |
Where Zuri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zuri is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1971 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zuri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,111 babies since 1880, Zuri is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 949 of their 1,193 babies (80%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zuri
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zuri and names like it
- Compare Zuri and ZhuriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZuri peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zuri since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zuri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zuri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.