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Zuri vs Zurisadai

American parents have registered 17,614 Zuris since 1880, against 530 Zurisadais. Zuri is still ahead, with 949 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zuri Zurisadai

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

Zuri has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1971 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Zuri had 83 and Zurisadai had 25.

Side by side

  Zuri Zurisadai
Total US births 17,614530
Most in one year 1,55539
Babies in 2025 949under 5
Estimated living today 17,000530
Median age today 617
Peak year 20222008
Best rank 194th girls4,006th girls
Rank in 2025 328thunranked
First recorded 19711990
Girls / boys 16,844 / 770530 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Zurisadais alive today are over 17; half the Zuris are over 6. That is 11 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.

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