girls:
375 births since 2003
#5341 (7th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 2010
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
386 births since 2003
#7353 (5th percentile)
The name Zuriah is the #7,353 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 386 recorded births since 2003. This represents the 5.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,341 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 375 births since 2003. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2010.
Zuriah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2003 (2003 for girls and 2010 for boys). Birth data for Zuriah is available in 20 out of the 21 years between 2003 and 2023 (20 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Zuriah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 88.1% of babies named Zuriah were girls.
For girls, Zuriah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #915) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zuriah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #915 (3.4% percentile) with 21 births per million.
For boys, Zuriah reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #879) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Currently, Zuriah ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 93.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zuriah".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Zuriah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Zuriah is pronounced as zoo-RAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zoo-REE-uh, at 25.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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