Uri

Where Uri comes from

From Hebrew אוּרִי (úri, “light”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Uri
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,821 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Peak, #2,048
    25 babies named Uri — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,430.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.