Zuri is a Swahili name that means ‘beautiful’. Swahili is a Bantu language and the most widely spoken lingua franca of East Africa. The word swahili is derived from the Arabic plural sawāḥil, singular sāḥil meaning ‘coast’ or ‘border’.
Zuri is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Zuri isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Zuri ranks 310. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Zuri. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zuri.
Zuri is a Swahili name that means ‘beautiful’. Swahili is a Bantu language and the most widely spoken lingua franca of East Africa. The word swahili is derived from the Arabic plural sawāḥil, singular sāḥil meaning ‘coast’ or ‘border’.
Zuri gained popularity.. in the US since about 2010.
Zuri is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Zuri cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #180 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Zuri, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Zuri seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zuri was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Zuri is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.
If your name is Zuri and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zuri, you can simply say:
Zebra
Unicorn
Rocket
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zuri
Zuri
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
U
R
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
U
R
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zuri sounds like this:
