Uriah
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #648 for boys in 2025, 427 births
Given to boys 93.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 559 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 12,077since 1880
Uriah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | #648 | 427 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | #651 | 424 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | #697 | 381 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | #692 | 383 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #689 | 385 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | #635 | 421 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #608 | 449 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #590 | 464 |
| 2017 | #4,922 | 27 | #542 | 521 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | #545 | 530 |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 | #577 | 486 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #504 | 559 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #540 | 493 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 | #573 | 451 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #576 | 435 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #546 | 462 |
| 2009 | #3,737 | 42 | #595 | 434 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 | #697 | 339 |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 | #1,025 | 184 |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 | #1,067 | 168 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #1,233 | 128 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | #1,206 | 126 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 | #1,197 | 123 |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 | #1,147 | 124 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | #1,151 | 120 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 | #1,027 | 142 |
| 1999 | #4,870 | 22 | #1,013 | 138 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | #1,159 | 108 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #981 | 132 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #1,162 | 101 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #1,090 | 108 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #1,178 | 94 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 | #1,238 | 84 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 | #1,037 | 111 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,147 | 92 |
| 1990 | — | #1,226 | 80 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #926 | 120 |
| 1988 | — | #1,013 | 93 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #921 | 105 |
| 1986 | — | #1,028 | 81 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,083 | 73 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,123 | 65 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,153 | 61 | |
| 1982 | — | #965 | 87 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,009 | 81 | |
| 1980 | — | #920 | 94 | |
| 1979 | — | #984 | 81 | |
| 1978 | — | #891 | 93 | |
| 1977 | — | #909 | 87 | |
| 1976 | — | #897 | 85 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,114 | 57 | |
| 1974 | — | #977 | 70 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,006 | 64 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,771 | 25 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,071 | 10 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,257 | 7 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,788 | 8 | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,333 | 10 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,313 | 13 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,260 | 8 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,265 | 14 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,052 | 16 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,063 | 15 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,699 | 10 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,986 | 15 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,849 | 16 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,600 | 19 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,945 | 9 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
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| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | #1,057 | 5 | |
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | #954 | 6 | |
| 1893 | — | #1,035 | 5 | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | #597 | 10 | |
| 1890 | — | #667 | 9 | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #815 | 7 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #943 | 5 | |
| 1881 | — | #781 | 6 | |
| 1880 | — | #600 | 10 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Uriah was already there! It came in at #600, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Uriah
- 3 spots since 2024 (#651 → #648)
- 13 spots since 2020 (#635 → #648)
- 71 spots since 2015 (#577 → #648)
- Biggest jump: 328 spots in 2008 (#1,025 → #697)
- Biggest drop: 300 spots in 1990 (#926 → #1,226)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 2014 at #504 (559 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,436 boys born in 2014 were named Uriah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,000 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 40.2% of all boys named Uriah (4,850) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | #600 (1880) | #785 |
| 1890s | 35 | #597 (1891) | #862 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 103 | #1,537 (1911) | #2,076 |
| 1920s | 106 | #2,052 (1920) | #2,788 |
| 1930s | 49 | #2,328 (1931) | #2,843 |
| 1940s | 41 | #2,333 (1941) | #3,037 |
| 1950s | 38 | #2,764 (1955) | #3,446 |
| 1960s | 27 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,970 |
| 1970s | 583 | #891 (1978) | #1,459 |
| 1980s | 860 | #920 (1980) | #1,014 |
| 1990s | 1,048 | #981 (1997) | #1,123 |
| 2000s | 1,888 | #595 (2009) | #1,035 |
| 2010s | 4,850 | #504 (2014) | #560 |
| 2020s | 2,421 | #635 (2020) | #669 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Uriah in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
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1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 24,353 of them was named Uriah, which outranked 82.9% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,003Antwon65
- #1,003Lorne65
- #1,003Maria65
- #1,006Uriah64
- #1,006Demetrios64
- #1,006Derwin64
- #1,006Ed64
- #1,014Bruno63
- #1,014Cristobal63
- #1,014Dedric63
Tied with 7 names at #1,006; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.