Zury
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZOO-ree
- Origin
- Swahili
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Zury is a girls' name of Swahili origin, meaning “beautiful, good”. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Zury mean?
Swahili: spelling of Zuri
“beautiful, good”
A spelling of Zuri, Swahili for 'beautiful'; zuri is also the Basque word for white.
Is Zury a girl's or a boy's name?
Zury is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zury in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,916among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Zury, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,004th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 54 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.
2025 had fewer girls named Zury than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Zury in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 967 girls in the US were given Zury or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #346, up from #5,916 for this spelling alone.
Zury in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,558 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,274 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,579 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,552 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,004 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,161 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,356 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,809 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,631 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,068 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,542 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,154 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,987 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,780 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,493 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,096 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,880 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,720 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,089 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,330 |
Names like Zury
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab Zaniyah Zayla Salem Zaya Zariah Zaira Safa Aaliyah Hadassah Kaliyah Zaina
Other spellings of Zury
More Swahili names
Imani Malaika Emani Jabari Zhuri Imara Maisha Asante Imaani Malaikah Taraji Xuri Zuriyah Johari Simba Zamani
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, “Zury: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zury, updated 20 October 2026.