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Zuria vs Zury

American parents have registered 796 Zurys since 1880, against 500 Zurias. Zury is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zuria against Zury, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zuria Zury

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 32 years in which either name was published, Zury for 26 years and Zuria for 6 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Zuria Zury
Total US births 500796
Most in one year 6454
Babies in 2025 1820
Estimated living today 500790
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20122006
Best rank 2,734th girls3,090th girls
Rank in 2025 6,325th5,917th
First recorded 19981987
Girls / boys 500 / 0796 / 0

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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