Uriyah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Uriah, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Uriyah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,224 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,224 in 2014; #5,829 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Uriyah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,829 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #3,224.
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Uriyah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,224 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 35 (2017).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Uriyah, making it the 5,829th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,047 places from #3,782 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 30 boys named Uriyah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,224, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 35, in 2017. For comparison, it was #4,694 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Uriyah, making it the 8,322nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,730 places from #11,052 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 9 girls named Uriyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,734, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 22. For comparison, it was #12,928 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Uriyah in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 5 babies. In all, 715 US babies have been given the name, 32% of them girls and 68% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 406 babies named Uriyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 268 US boys were named Uriyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Uriah (12,992 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.
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 Uriyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,322 | 16 | #5,829 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,052 | 30 | #3,782 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,734 | 22 | #4,731 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,692 | 19 | #5,202 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,935 | 25 | #4,227 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,021 | 30 | #3,648 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,105 | 27 | #3,995 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,501 | 34 | #3,366 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,745 | 35 | #3,308 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,957 | 30 | #3,674 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,928 | 21 | #4,694 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,474 | 35 | #3,224 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,953 | 19 | #4,964 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,781 | 25 | #4,124 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,277 | 23 | #4,342 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,198 | 34 | #3,305 |
| 2009 | — | — | 34 | #3,329 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,235 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,380 | 6 | #12,263 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,047 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,684 | — | — |
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).