# Urijah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/urijah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,778 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,693 / 85 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Variant of Uriah.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | 10,049 |
| 2009 | 17 | 7,665 |
| 2010 | 13 | 9,197 |
| 2011 | 5 | 19,414 |
| 2012 | 15 | 8,192 |
| 2013 | 11 | 10,203 |
| 2014 | 5 | 19,033 |
| 2016 | 7 | 14,228 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 360 | 653 |
| 2012 | 355 | 666 |
| 2013 | 302 | 755 |
| 2014 | 293 | 788 |
| 2015 | 253 | 883 |
| 2016 | 217 | 956 |
| 2017 | 167 | 1,140 |
| 2018 | 125 | 1,406 |
| 2019 | 117 | 1,477 |
| 2020 | 97 | 1,654 |
| 2021 | 80 | 1,913 |
| 2022 | 91 | 1,802 |
| 2023 | 56 | 2,436 |
| 2024 | 51 | 2,635 |
| 2025 | 44 | 2,876 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.