Uriel
Uriel was given to 708 boys in 2025, #446 among boys’ names; 21,393 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,800 Americans named Uriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Uriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Uriel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Uriel is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “God is my light” (אוּרִיאֵל).
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οὐριήλ (Ouriḗl), from Hebrew אוּרִיאֵל (“God is my light”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Uriel?
#446 among boys’ names, 2025
Uriel rose from #573 in 2015 to #446 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.26 to 0.41 per 1,000.
796 babies in 2008, the peak
Uriel peaked in 2008, when 796 babies were given it (789 boys, #386 among boys’ names). The 719 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 90% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 708 | #446 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 670 | #462 | 0.39 |
| 2023 | 607 | #498 | 0.35 |
| 2022 | 628 | #486 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 588 | #500 | 0.34 |
| 2020 | 637 | #467 | 0.37 |
| 2019 | 655 | #457 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 581 | #495 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 539 | #526 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 557 | #530 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 491 | #573 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 575 | #491 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 571 | #484 | 0.30 |
| 2012 | 559 | #482 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 604 | #448 | 0.32 |
| 2010 | 615 | #441 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 733 | #404 | 0.37 |
| 2008 | 789 | #386 | 0.39 |
| 2007 | 741 | #399 | 0.36 |
| 2006 | 751 | #402 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 706 | #402 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 587 | #445 | 0.30 |
| 2003 | 581 | #435 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 548 | #450 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 509 | #468 | 0.26 |
| 2000 | 494 | #476 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 459 | #485 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 406 | #516 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 379 | #528 | 0.20 |
| 1996 | 396 | #514 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 358 | #533 | 0.19 |
| 1994 | 335 | #560 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 316 | #578 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 307 | #587 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 239 | #654 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 217 | #687 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 156 | #796 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 136 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 112 | #889 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 93 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 95 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,031 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,167 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 38 | #1,468 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 34 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 23 | #1,976 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,599 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,072 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,197 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,300 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,189 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #2,023 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,969 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,894 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,307 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #3,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,085 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,255 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,609 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,285 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,114 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,130 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,450 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,840 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,761 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,694 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,938 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,815 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,966 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,232 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Uriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 21,393 Americans recorded as Uriel, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 708 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Uriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Uriel, and how old are they?
20,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 21,393 Americans ever recorded as Uriel. The median Uriel alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 19,855 people named Uriel (277 women and girls, 19,578 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 88 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 437 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,900 |
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 Uriel born?
The states with the most babies named Uriel are Texas, California and Arizona, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 166 | #238 | 1.9× |
| California | 146 | #257 | 2.3× |
| Arizona | 32 | #258 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 30 | #581 | 0.6× |
| New York | 27 | #581 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #473 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 22 | #484 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 21 | #518 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 20 | #408 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 18 | #363 | 1.3× |
Where Uriel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Uriel is most over-represented in California: 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 Uriel 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 21,800 babies since 1880, Uriel is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 719 of their 719 babies (100%), again the 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 Uriel
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 Uriel and names like it
- Compare Uriel and UralBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sUriel peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Uriel since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Uriel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Uriel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Uriel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with UMost given first.