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Urijah

#2,875 in 2025Boys' name

God is my light, through Uriah

Urijah has been given to 3,778 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,875 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 403 recorded.

Babies named Urijah, 2025

1 in 75,300

Urijah over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Urijah: meaning, origin, and history

God is my light, through Uriah

Hebrew

What Urijah means

Urijah belongs to the name family reached through Urijah → Uriah. Its meaning is “God is my light”.

Origin, language, and formation

Urijah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Uriah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,693 boys were recorded with the name Urijah between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 403 in 2009; its best national rank was #619 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,654 in 2020 to #2,875 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #883 in 2015 to #2,875 in 2025.

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Urijah between 2008 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2009; its best national rank was #7,662 in 2009.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Urijah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,875
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Urijah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Urijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Urijahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Urijah was born before 2013 — so the typical Urijah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
69.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,693
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 69.8% of all recorded uses (2,579).

Is Urijah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−240
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,221
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,992
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.17×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.9%
Peak was 2009 (403)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
74.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#619
2009

Spellings of Urijah

Urijah is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 92.6% against Urijah's 0.90%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Urijah is used

Across 2016–2025, Urijah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 20,092 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 4,545
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 5,000
  3. 3California1 in 12,500
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Arizona1 in 16,667
  6. 6Colorado1 in 16,667
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 16,667
  8. 8Oregon1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Urijah around the world

Where Urijah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2008–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Urijah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,875
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,221
Best rank ever
#619
2009
Peak year
2009
403 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,693
Count in 2025
44

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,662
2009
Peak year
2009
17 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Urijah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Urijah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Urijah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Urijah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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