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Suri

Gender
Girl
Say it
SOO-ree
UK rank, 2025
#1,217 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,927 for girls

Suri is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 1,217th for girls in the UK (28 babies) and 1,927th for girls in the US (100 babies).

What does Suri mean?

Possibly Hebrew, linked to Sarah, or Persian

Brought to wide notice in 2006 by Suri Cruise, daughter of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Is Suri a girl's or a boy's name?

Suri is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 girls in the UK and 100 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Suri in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,217th among girls
Babies in 2025
28 about 1 in 9,900 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 13% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were named Suri, making it the 1,217th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,389th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 36 girls.

Half of all the girls named Suri in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,166th in England and Wales.

1999Busiest: 36 in 20172025
Suri in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202528#1,217
202424#1,397
202328#1,247
202228#1,248
202130#1,201
202024#1,389
201918#1,729
201829#1,237
201736#1,062
201611#2,510
201518#1,739
201415#1,976
201327#1,324
201223#1,474
201128#1,238
201032#1,112
200915#1,848
200820#1,499
200715#1,784
20067#2,940
20053#4,976
20040–
20033#4,560
20020–
20010–
20000–
19993#4,041

How popular is Suri in the US?

Rank in 2025
1,927th among girls
Babies in 2025
100 about 1 in 16,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 8% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 100 girls in the US were named Suri, making it the 1,927th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,578th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 247 girls. It first appears in the records in 1956.

2025 had fewer girls named Suri than any year since 2005.

Half of all the girls named Suri in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 183 girls in the US were given Suri or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,115, up from #1,927 for this spelling alone.

1956Busiest: 247 in 20122025
Suri in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025100#1,927
2024129#1,613
2023126#1,645
2022136#1,560
2021146#1,469
2020133#1,578
2019125#1,679
2018129#1,640
2017135#1,607
2016131#1,649
2015151#1,504
2014174#1,345
2013220#1,105
2012247#1,026
2011203#1,186
2010227#1,095
2009223#1,132
2008213#1,193
2007199#1,244
2006184#1,287
200516#7,133
200420#5,965
20037#12,401
200213#7,810
200111#8,751
20006#13,147
19996#12,681
19980–
19970–
19965#13,511
19956#11,778
19946#11,771
19937#10,581
19920–
19916#11,501
19900–
19890–
19887#9,239
19870–
19865#10,907
19850–
19840–
19837#8,045
19820–
19816#9,108
19800–
19790–
19780–
19775#9,650
19760–
19756#7,982
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19697#5,972
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19635#6,591
19620–
19617#5,308
19600–
19596#5,565
19586#5,407
19570–
19565#5,951

Names like Suri

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Saanvi, Anvi, Sanvi, Aarvi, Prisha, Shanvi, Arya, Sharvi, Saavi, Avni, Kashvi, Vaani

Other spellings of Suri

Sury

Names related to Suri

Sri, Sayuri, Sura, Suriya, Surai, Surie

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Suri: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/suri, updated 20 October 2026.