Zuri is a Swahili name that means "beautiful" or "good". It is short, bright and easy to say, and the character Zuri in Marvel's Black Panther films brought it to a wide American audience. Zuri entered the US top 1000 in 2010, climbed from number 443 in 2015 to a peak of 194 in 2022 and ranks 329th among girls' names in 2025.