Uriah
Uriah is ranked 654th among boys in 2024 (421 births). Its best rank was 505th, in 2014.
- Rank in 2024
- #654up 43 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4210.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2014559 births
- Best rank
- #505in 2014
- Since 1880
- 12,530people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,645 boys have been named Uriah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 559 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 505 → 654).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 42%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 885 girls have also been given it, 7.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Uriah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | |
| 1890s | 35 | |
| 1910s | 103 | |
| 1920s | 106 | |
| 1930s | 49 | |
| 1940s | 41 | |
| 1950s | 38 | |
| 1960s | 27 | |
| 1970s | 583 | |
| 1980s | 860 | |
| 1990s | 1,048 | |
| 2000s | 1,888 | |
| 2010s | 4,849 | |
| 2020s | 1,990 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Uriah was the 505th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Uriah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tituspeak 2015
- Arianpeak 2013
- Elipeak 2012
- Zacpeak 2014
- Hestonpeak 2016
- Josiahpeak 2017
- Astonpeak 2015
- Lucaspeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.