Meaning not yet researched.
Uriel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 708 in 2025. Its best rank was #386 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #386 in 2008; #446 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Uriel in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#446 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #386.
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Uriel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 708 boys in 2025. Peak: #386 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 789 (2008).
In 2025, 708 US boys were named Uriel, making it the 446th most common boys’ name of the year, up 16 places from #462 in 2024. That is 38 more than the 670 boys named Uriel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #386, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 789. For comparison, it was #573 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Uriel in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 21,393 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,507 babies named Uriel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,170 US boys were named Uriel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 708. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,413 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Uriel ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #234 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ariel (100,665 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Orel, Oriel and Ural are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Orel (698), Oriel (453), Ural (407), Urielle (72), Oril (18), Orrel (10).
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 Uriel 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 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 9 | #234 | #277 |
| Texas | 166 | #238 | #390 |
| California | 146 | #257 | #320 |
| Arizona | 32 | #258 | #371 |
| Oregon | 15 | #293 | #545 |
| Colorado | 18 | #363 | #475 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #408 | #433 |
| Maryland | 12 | #436 | — |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #459 | #699 |
| Washington | 16 | #472 | #593 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #473 | #707 |
| Illinois | 22 | #484 | #419 |
| Georgia | 21 | #518 | #624 |
| Kansas | 7 | #519 | #666 |
| Florida | 30 | #581 | #833 |
| New York | 27 | #581 | #645 |
| Nevada | 5 | #594 | #388 |
| Iowa | 5 | #657 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #665 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #666 | #891 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #667 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #681 | #702 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #710 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #780 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #790 | #981 |
| Utah | 5 | #802 | #558 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #881 | #668 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #894 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #988 | #1,223 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,005 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,218 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,422 | 708 | #446 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,911 | 670 | #462 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,560 | 607 | #498 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,263 | 628 | #486 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,246 | 588 | #500 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,373 | 637 | #467 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,571 | 655 | #457 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,506 | 581 | #495 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,653 | 539 | #526 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,800 | 557 | #530 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,776 | 491 | #573 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,032 | 575 | #491 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,952 | 571 | #484 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,084 | 559 | #482 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,276 | 604 | #448 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,853 | 615 | #441 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,625 | 733 | #404 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,307 | 789 | #386 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,615 | 741 | #399 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,569 | 751 | #402 |
| 2005 | — | — | 706 | #402 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,100 | 587 | #445 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,286 | 581 | #435 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,958 | 548 | #450 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,981 | 509 | #468 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,086 | 494 | #476 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,336 | 459 | #485 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,097 | 406 | #516 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,050 | 379 | #528 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,522 | 396 | #514 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,673 | 358 | #533 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,666 | 335 | #561 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,378 | 316 | #579 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,459 | 307 | #589 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,077 | 239 | #656 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,163 | 217 | #689 |
| 1989 | — | — | 156 | #799 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,737 | 136 | #815 |
| 1987 | — | — | 112 | #890 |
| 1986 | — | — | 93 | #953 |
| 1985 | — | — | 95 | #938 |
| 1984 | — | — | 75 | #1,032 |
| 1983 | — | — | 64 | #1,129 |
| 1982 | — | — | 76 | #1,048 |
| 1981 | — | — | 63 | #1,167 |
| 1980 | — | — | 71 | #1,078 |
| 1979 | — | — | 63 | #1,136 |
| 1978 | — | — | 48 | #1,324 |
| 1977 | — | — | 52 | #1,242 |
| 1976 | — | — | 38 | #1,468 |
| 1975 | — | — | 34 | #1,557 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,976 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,601 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,072 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,198 |
| 1970 | — | — | 32 | #1,520 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,301 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,190 |
| 1967 | — | — | 16 | #2,024 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,970 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,072 |
| 1964 | — | — | 19 | #1,895 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,293 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,290 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,335 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,308 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #3,029 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,086 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,859 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,436 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,226 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,220 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,502 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,750 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,406 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,257 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,611 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,287 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,273 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,753 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #4,116 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,293 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,132 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,487 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,452 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,842 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,496 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,948 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,763 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,695 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,939 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,816 |
| 1914 | — | — | 12 | #1,967 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,233 |
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).