Uri is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Uriah, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Uri: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,099 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,099 in 1979; #2,984 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Uri in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,984 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #2,099.
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Uri: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,099 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 60 (2023).
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Uri, making it the 2,984th most common boys’ name of the year, up 116 places from #3,100 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 40 boys named Uri in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,099, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,768 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Uri in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #6,904, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 17. For comparison, it was #18,922 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Uri in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 1,395 US babies have been given the name, 10% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 356 babies named Uri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 376 US boys were named Uri; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Uri ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #907 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Uriah (12,992 babies since 1880), Orie (2,156 babies since 1880) and Ori (1,966 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Uri in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #907 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,396 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,543 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,788 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 42 | #2,984 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,404 | 40 | #3,100 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,559 | 60 | #2,340 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,162 | 49 | #2,712 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,504 | 35 | #3,355 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,904 | 29 | #3,723 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,313 | 35 | #3,341 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,706 | 32 | #3,519 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,886 | 28 | #3,880 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,067 | 26 | #4,087 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,922 | 29 | #3,768 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,778 |
| 2013 | — | — | 37 | #3,056 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,711 | 19 | #5,027 |
| 2011 | — | — | 22 | #4,500 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,855 | 38 | #3,069 |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,033 | 40 | #2,986 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,306 | 37 | #3,160 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,515 | 24 | #4,238 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,437 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,808 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,472 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,693 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,446 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #5,133 |
| 2000 | — | — | 17 | #4,558 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,330 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,838 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,900 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #7,098 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,775 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,786 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,680 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,310 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #5,081 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,790 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,508 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,906 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,945 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #4,116 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,210 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,685 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,402 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,513 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,400 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,601 |
| 1979 | — | — | 25 | #2,099 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #3,061 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,657 |
| 1976 | — | — | 22 | #2,175 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,202 |
| 1974 | — | — | 15 | #2,667 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,850 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,982 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,119 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,818 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,299 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,660 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,540 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #4,016 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,425 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,232 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).