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Zuri vs Zuriel

American parents have registered 17,614 Zuris since 1880, against 2,468 Zuriels. Zuri is still ahead, with 949 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zuri against Zuriel, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zuri Zuriel

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 52 years in which either name was published, Zuri for 51 years and Zuriel for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Zuri Zuriel
Total US births 17,6142,468
Most in one year 1,555137
Babies in 2025 949125
Estimated living today 17,0002,400
Median age today 612
Peak year 20222024
Best rank 194th girls1,709th boys
Rank in 2025 328th1,708th
First recorded 19711977
Girls / boys 16,844 / 770502 / 1,966

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zuriels alive today are over 12; half the Zuris are over 6. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zuri Zuriel
England and Wales 672337
Scotland 228

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zuri and Zuriel.