Uriah

Where Uriah comes from

From Biblical Hebrew אוּרִיָּה ('ūriyyā, literally “God is my light”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Uriah
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Uriah through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys, with 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, the most in any year.
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.