Uriah

Where Uriah comes from

From Biblical Hebrew אוּרִיָּה ('ūriyyā, literally “God is my light”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Uriah
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1984
    Uriah Hall born
    Jamaican mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
  3. 1997
    Uriah Shelton born
    American actor and singer
  4. 2014
    Peak, #504
    559 babies named Uriah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Uriah Shelton · American actor and singer, born 1997
  • Uriah Hall · Jamaican mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, born 1984
  • Uriah Tracy · American politician, 1755–1807
  • Uriah Rennie · English football referee, 1959–2025
  • Uriah Smith · American Seventh-day Adventist minister, 1832–1903

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.