Uriyah
Uriyah is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,320 among girls’ names and #5,827 among boys’, #8,232 among all names counting both); 715 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Uriyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Uriyah?
#5,827 among boys’ names, 2025
Uriyah fell from #4,692 in 2015 to #5,827 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 9.4 per million.
53 babies in 2018, the peak
Uriyah peaked in 2018, when 53 babies were given it (34 boys, #3,362 among boys’ names). The 29 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,320 | 16 | #5,827 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,047 | 30 | #3,780 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,729 | 22 | #4,727 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,687 | 19 | #5,198 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,931 | 25 | #4,223 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,016 | 30 | #3,645 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,101 | 27 | #3,992 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,497 | 34 | #3,362 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,741 | 35 | #3,306 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,954 | 30 | #3,673 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,923 | 21 | #4,692 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,468 | 35 | #3,222 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,948 | 19 | #4,961 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,777 | 25 | #4,121 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,269 | 23 | #4,340 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,194 | 34 | #3,304 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 34 | #3,327 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 18 | #5,230 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,374 | 6 | #12,257 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,040 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,677 | under 5 |
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 Uriyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 715 Americans recorded as Uriyah, 32% are girls and 68% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Uriyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Uriyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 710 Americans named Uriyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 393 people named Uriyah (124 women and girls, 269 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 487 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Uriyah?
Uriyah is a less common spelling of Uriah: SSA has recorded 715 Uriyah and 12,992 Uriah since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 13,707 babies since 1880, Uriyah is the second most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 486 babies (6.0%), 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 Uriyah
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 Uriyah and names like it
- Compare Uriyah and UriahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sUriyah peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Uriyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Uriyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Uriyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with UMost given first.