Zurii
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZOOR-ee
- Origin
- Swahili
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Zurii is a girls' name of Swahili origin, meaning “beautiful, good”. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Zurii mean?
Swahili: spelling of Zuri
“beautiful, good”
A spelling of Zuri, from the Swahili word for beautiful or good.
Is Zurii a girl's or a boy's name?
Zurii is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zurii in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 66% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Zurii, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Zurii in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 64 girls in the US were given Zurii or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,265, up from #5,409 for this spelling alone.
- Xuri 41
- Zurii 23
Zurii in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,409 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
Names like Zurii
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nyomi, Kobi, Kayomi, Demi, Remi, Kyomi, Simi, Niomi, Nayomi, Chizaram, Zhuri, Nomi
Other spellings of Zurii
Names related to Zurii
More Swahili names
Imani, Malaika, Emani, Jabari, Imara, Maisha, Asante, Imaani, Malaikah, Taraji, Johari, Simba, Zamani, Ahmani, Nyota, Imarni
Sources
Figures from 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, “Zurii: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zurii, updated 20 October 2026.