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Suri

Feminine · “rose”

1956high 2012
#1927 in the U.S.stepping back from its peak
falling100 girls in 2025

Suri is a rose in Persian and a princess in Hebrew — and it also names the alpaca with the long dreadlocked fleece.

How old is the name Suri?

Suri first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Suri is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,500 people named Suri are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Suri most popular?

Suri peaked in 2012, reaching #1026 nationally. Today it ranks #1927, 901 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Suri

Suri has been a Yiddish diminutive of Sarah for centuries and remains common in Hasidic communities. Separately, suri names one of the two alpaca types, whose fleece hangs in long locks. The name became widely visible in America after a celebrity naming in 2006 and appears in the registers in current use.

Meaningscholars disagree

rose; princess

Several routes. The Persian surkh gives a reading of 'red' or 'rose'. The Yiddish Suri is a diminutive of Sarah, 'princess'. Suri is also a Quechua-derived word for a long-fleeced alpaca. All are genuine and none is dominant for the modern name.

How the name formed

  1. Sarah
  2. Suri

Related forms: סורי · Suri · Sury

Pronouncing Suri

SOO-ree

Two syllables, stress on the first. Persian and Yiddish say it the same way.

Nicknames for Suri

Moderate

SuThe front sound alone, used inside families rather than generally
SarahThe parent form for the Yiddish route, with an enormous record
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1956–2025247124024710019562025

US babies named Suri per year from 1956 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#10261950s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1956
Most girls named
2012247 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1026reached in 2012
Change vs 2024
−22.5%100 in 2025, from 129
Suri is past its biggest year. The count topped out at 247 girls in 2012 and has eased 60% since — the slow half of a naming cycle, where a name stays familiar while getting steadily less common. The move since 2024: down 22.5%.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Suri in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • סורי in Yiddish — transliteration
  • Suri in Persian — same name
  • Sury in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Texas.

Suris among us

3,500

people named Suri are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 16,073 born in 2025 was named Suri

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Suri

#1927
Suri on the 2025 chart
#777
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Suri went to 100 girls in 2025, but Sury is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 183, which makes it the 777th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,150 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 8,783 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 16,073 for Suri itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Rana test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Suri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rana climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rana's path sketches the road Suri is walking now.

40%chance Suri will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Suri, aligned on its peakRana· peak 1971not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+50 yrsRana · #3184Suri today
Suri today is about where Rana stood in 1984 — 13 years past a #1026-sized peak. By 1999, Rana had settled around #2133.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Suri sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Suri is headed

19562030

US babies named Suri per year, 1956 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Suri should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-1% by 2030projected around #2,043 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Suri beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Suri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Surithis name100#1927Cove100#1927Cindy100#1927Collyns100#1927Estefany100#1927

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Several genuine traditions can claim it, Persian and Yiddish among them.
  • Sarah is available as a full formal version for the Yiddish route.
  • Four letters, two syllables, and never misheard.
What to consider
  • The origin is genuinely split several ways.
  • One celebrity naming dominates the American association.
  • The alpaca sense is a coincidence some people will know.

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Frequently asked

How many Suris are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,500 people named Suri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Suri?
Suri is the most-used spelling in US records — 100 of the 183 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Sury.
How popular is the name Suri in 2025?
Suri ranks #1927 among US girl names in 2025, with 100 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Suri?
About 1 in every 16,073 US girls born in 2025 was named Suri — 100 in all.
Will my child share the name Suri with classmates?
Suri will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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