Fun Facts About the Name Zhuri
- More than 1 thousand babies named Zhuri: U.S. records list 1,977 babies given the name Zhuri from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Zhuri Mean?
Zhuri is a modern given name, used mainly for girls, for which no etymology is documented in standard references on personal names. Two look-alikes are sometimes noted: the Swahili word zuri, meaning "beautiful" or "good," and the Arabic name Zuhri, a surname-style name derived from zuhra ("blossom," also the Arabic name for the planet Venus). No documented line of transmission connects either one to Zhuri, so the resemblance may be coincidental. The spelling zh stands for the sound of the s in English "measure," a convention English borrows from Slavic and other transliteration systems; it does not by itself point to a particular source language.
Zhuri Name History & Origins
Zhuri entered English-language use in the United States in the early twenty-first century. The best-known bearer is Zhuri Nova James, daughter of the basketball player LeBron James, born in 2014; her name brought the spelling to wider public attention, but one prominent bearer does not show where the name came from. Outside the United States, Zhuri is also found as a given name in Albanian-speaking areas, though whether that use is related to the American name or developed separately is not established.
How Popular is the Name Zhuri?
Zhuri recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2022. Its best rank was #839 in 2022.
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 | #1,511 | 142 | 0.0088% |
| 2024 | #1,178 | 203 | 0.0126% |
| 2023 | #869 | 309 | 0.0193% |
| 2022 | #839 | 334 | 0.0204% |
| 2021 | #1,054 | 240 | 0.0146% |
| 2020 | #993 | 257 | 0.0159% |
| 2019 | #1,381 | 163 | 0.0097% |
| 2018 | #1,565 | 139 | 0.0082% |
| 2017 | #2,778 | 62 | 0.0036% |
| 2016 | #2,932 | 58 | 0.0033% |
| 2015 | #4,485 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2014 | #7,634 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2013 | #14,570 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2012 | #14,954 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #13,435 | 8 | 0.0005% |
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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How the Name Zhuri Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have aspiration and inspiration, hope and guidance. Since you are intuitive and perceptive and you understand human nature. You have the power to achieve. Diplomacy and discretion make you a good mediator. You are inspired, introspective, and have a good understanding of the human heart. You can have the ability to commercialize your artistic talents successfully. You are often a mystery to others and to yourself. You are always reaching for something higher, without exactly knowing what that "higher" is. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.
You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.
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