Zury
Feminine · “my rock' in Hebrew”
Zury has two possible parents, both real. Hebrew Tzuri means 'my rock' and appears in the Book of Numbers; Swahili zuri means beautiful and is used as a name across East Africa and in African-American naming. The spelling with a Z and a Y is American and belongs to neither exactly. Its peak is 2006.
How old is the name Zury?
Zury first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Zury is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Zury are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Zury most popular?
Zury peaked in 2006, reaching #3090 nationally. Today it ranks #5917, 2,827 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From zuri to Zury
The story of Zury
The Swahili route is the more likely for most modern American bearers. Interest in Swahili names grew sharply in the United States from the late 1960s, and a set of them entered general use — Imani, Nia, Zuri, Kwame, Amani, Jamila. Zuri was among them and has stayed in continuous use since. The Hebrew route is real but narrower, mostly confined to Israeli and observant Jewish families, where Zuri and Zuriel are in use. The American Zury with a Y appears from the 1990s and belongs to a period when the letter Z was one of the most fashionable initials available.
Meaningscholars disagree
'my rock' in Hebrew; 'beautiful' in Swahili
Two genuine and unrelated sources. Hebrew tzur means a rock or a crag and is used as an image of God throughout the Psalms; Tzuri, 'my rock', appears in Numbers as a personal name. Swahili -zuri is the adjective for beautiful or good, and Zuri has been a name in East Africa and in America since the 1970s. Zury is close to both and identical to neither. Which one a family had in mind is a family fact.
How the name formed
- zuri
- Zuri
- Zury
Related forms: Zuri · Tzuri · Zurie
Pronouncing Zury
ZOO-ree
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a long oo. A second saying, ZUR-ee with the vowel of fur, is also heard on the Y spelling. The Swahili and Hebrew originals both use the oo.
Nicknames for Zury
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1987
- Most girls named
- 200654 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3090reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%20 in 2025, from 30
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.
Zury in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Zuri in Swahili — related form
- Tzuri in Hebrew — related form
- Zurie in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Zurys among us
people named Zury are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was named Zury
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Zury
- #5917
- Zury on the 2025 chart
- #323
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Zury went to 20 girls in 2025, but Zuri and Zurii are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 975, which makes it the 323rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,594 places above the chart.
- Zuri932
- Zurii23
- Zury20
About 1 girl in 1,648 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 80,363 for Zury 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Adamae test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Zury's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Adamae climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Adamae's path sketches the road Zury is walking now.
Zury 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
Zury beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Zury in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, distinctive and immediately spellable after one hearing.
- Both possible meanings are positive and expressible in two words.
- The Z initial makes it memorable in any list.
- Two vowel readings circulate on this spelling.
- Zuri is the more standard spelling in both source traditions.
- Having two unrelated origins means the meaning question always needs a qualifier.
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Frequently asked
- How many Zurys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Zury are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Zury?
- Zury is one of 3 recorded spellings. Zuri is the more common one — 932 births in 2025 against 20 for Zury.
- How popular is the name Zury in 2025?
- Zury ranks #5917 among US girl names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Zury?
- About 1 in every 80,363 US girls born in 2025 was named Zury — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Zury with classmates?
- Zury will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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