Urijah
Urijah was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,875 among boys’ names; 3,778 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,740 Americans named Urijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 10 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Urijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Urijah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Urijah is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Variant of Uriah.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Urijah?
#2,875 among boys’ names, 2025
Urijah fell from #883 in 2015 to #2,875 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.03 per 1,000.
420 babies in 2009, the peak
Urijah peaked in 2009, when 420 babies were given it (403 boys, #619 among boys’ names). The 44 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,875 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,635 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,435 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 91 | #1,802 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 80 | #1,912 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,654 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 125 | #1,406 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,140 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 217 | #956 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 253 | #883 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 293 | #788 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 302 | #755 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 355 | #666 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 360 | #653 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 390 | #625 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 403 | #619 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 237 | #888 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,787 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,899 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,234 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,381 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,473 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,283 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Urijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,778 Americans recorded as Urijah, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 44 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 Urijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Urijah, and how old are they?
3,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,778 Americans ever recorded as Urijah. The median Urijah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 10 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,739 people named Urijah (73 women and girls, 2,666 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,356 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,900 |
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 Urijah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,544 | 1.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,789 | 1.1× |
Where Urijah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Urijah is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 2000 it was given 4.5 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 Urijah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Urijah
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 Urijah and names like it
- Compare Urijah and AaydenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sUrijah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Urijah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Urijah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Urijah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Urijah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with UMost given first.