Zuri comes from the Swahili word for "beautiful" or "good" — used in everyday speech across East Africa from Kenya to Tanzania to the Congo. As a given name, Zuri has been common in the African continent for generations, and is now rising rapidly in the African diaspora and beyond.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z's daughter Rumi Carter has a friend named Zuri.
Two syllables. Five letters. A meaning every parent can hold.
Zuri does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zuri reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.