Fun Facts About the Name Mazuri
- 67 babies named Mazuri: U.S. records list 67 babies given the name Mazuri from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Mazuri Mean?
Mazuri is a Swahili word meaning "good," "fine," or "beautiful," and it is used as a given name. Swahili is a Bantu language and the everyday and trading language of the East African coast, Tanzania, and Kenya. Mazuri is the ma-class plural form of the adjective root -zuri, which means the word changes its prefix to agree with the noun it describes. It goes with plural nouns of the ma- class, so maji mazuri is "good water." The same root gives mzuri ("good," of a person), nzuri ("good," with n-class nouns), and vizuri ("well," "nicely"). The core sense is "good" or "beautiful"; the weaker sense of "nice" or "fine" is how the word is ordinarily used in speech.
Mazuri Name History & Origins
Swahili developed from Bantu speech on the East African coast and absorbed a large amount of Arabic vocabulary through centuries of Indian Ocean trade and the spread of Islam. The adjective root -zuri and the prefix system that produces mazuri, mzuri, and nzuri belong to the Bantu layer of the language, not to its Arabic borrowings.
In East Africa, Swahili words are commonly put to use as personal names, and Zuri, built on the same root, is the best known of these. Mazuri is encountered far more often as a word than as a personal name; where it is used as a name, it comes from the Swahili word, and it is also used in the United States and other English-speaking countries.
The similar-looking Polish surname Mazur, from mazur, a person from Masovia, has no connection to the Swahili root.
How Popular is the Name Mazuri?
Mazuri has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2023. Its best rank was #5,331 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #11,567 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2024 | #6,066 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2023 | #5,331 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2019 | #17,164 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #10,304 | 10 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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