Uri
Uri was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,983 among boys’ names; 1,395 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Uri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Uri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Uri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Uri is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.” Its etymology gives the sense “light” (אוּרִי).
From Hebrew אוּרִי (úri, “light”).
/ˈuːɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Uri?
#2,983 among boys’ names, 2025
Uri rose from #3,767 in 2015 to #2,983 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 24.6 per million.
71 babies in 2023, the peak
Uri peaked in 2023, when 71 babies were given it (60 boys, #2,339 among boys’ names). The 42 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 42 | #2,983 | |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,399 | 40 | #3,099 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,554 | 60 | #2,339 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,157 | 49 | #2,710 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,499 | 35 | #3,353 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,900 | 29 | #3,720 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,309 | 35 | #3,338 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,701 | 32 | #3,515 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,882 | 28 | #3,876 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,063 | 26 | #4,086 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,916 | 29 | #3,767 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 28 | #3,775 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 37 | #3,054 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,704 | 19 | #5,022 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 22 | #4,498 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,848 | 38 | #3,068 |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,027 | 40 | #2,985 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,300 | 37 | #3,158 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,509 | 24 | #4,236 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 13 | #6,432 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 25 | #3,804 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 15 | #5,467 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,686 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 26 | #3,441 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 15 | #5,126 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 17 | #4,551 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 17 | #4,325 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 19 | #3,834 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 27 | #2,896 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 8 | #7,091 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 13 | #4,769 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 13 | #4,780 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 13 | #4,674 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 14 | #4,303 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 11 | #5,074 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,783 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 12 | #4,502 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 13 | #3,901 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 12 | #3,940 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 11 | #4,112 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 15 | #3,207 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 12 | #3,682 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 13 | #3,401 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 20 | #2,512 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 13 | #3,398 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 12 | #3,600 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 25 | #2,099 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 14 | #3,060 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 17 | #2,656 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 22 | #2,174 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 21 | #2,201 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 15 | #2,665 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 13 | #2,848 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 12 | #2,980 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 20 | #2,118 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,816 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,298 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 7 | #3,659 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,539 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #4,015 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,423 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #3,231 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Uri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,395 Americans recorded as Uri, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 42 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Uri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Uri, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,395 Americans ever recorded as Uri. The median Uri alive today is 17 years old; half are between 7 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,823 people named Uri (187 women and girls, 1,636 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,056 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Uri rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 181 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 192 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 389 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 576 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Uri born?
The states with the most babies named Uri are New York, New Jersey and Texas, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,396 | 2.3× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #907 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,543 | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,788 | 0.3× |
Where Uri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Uri is most over-represented in New York: since 1913 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Uri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 14,688 babies since 1880, Uri is the second most given (9.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 507 babies (8.3%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Uri
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Uri and names like it
- Compare Uri and UriahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sUri peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Uri since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Uri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Uri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Uri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with UMost given first.