Entry № 9650 · African (Wakandan, fictional) origin

Shuri Shuri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHOO-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
African (Wakandan, fictional)
Meaning
"Princess of Wakanda (Marvel's Shuri, Black Panther successor)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "princess of wakanda (marvel's shuri, black panther successor)".

Shuri is the name chosen by Marvel Comics writer Reginald Hudlin (2005) for the Princess of Wakanda — sister of T'Challa, brilliant teen technology genius, and eventual second-generation Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Japanese, Shuri (首里) is also the historic capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom and the site of Shuri Castle in Okinawa — a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Wright's performance was praised in Time, Variety, and the New York Times for transforming a supporting comic-book character into a leading film franchise hero.

Princess of Wakanda.

The name in its native script.

Shuri
Transliteration
Shuri
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃʊə.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shuri stands.

Shuri does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Shuris before her.

Real people
Shuri
Various Black Panther references.
In fiction
Shuri
Marvel's Black Panther.
2018

Names connected to Shuri.

The number behind Shuri.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shuri reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.