Uriah

#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #648 for boys in 2025, 427 births
Given to boys 93.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2014 · 559 births
Debut · boys
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
12,077
since 1880

Uriah over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #3,664, 2000peak #504, 2014girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,54630#648427
2024#5,30024#651424
2023#5,75221#697381
2022#5,02826#692383
2021#5,39823#689385
2020#5,00325#635421
2019#5,79821#608449
2018#4,56230#590464
2017#4,92227#542521
2016#4,99027#545530
2015#4,85328#577486
2014#4,35033#504559
2013#4,42232#540493
2012#5,25326#573451
2011#5,54324#576435
2010#5,24726#546462
2009#3,73742#595434
2008#4,76131#697339
2007#3,84841#1,025184
2006#4,57631#1,067168
2005#4,95826#1,233128
2004#5,06225#1,206126
2003#4,94325#1,197123
2002#3,97832#1,147124
2001#4,68825#1,151120
2000#3,66435#1,027142
1999#4,87022#1,013138
1998#4,49224#1,159108
1997#4,81921#981132
1996#5,06519#1,162101
1995#5,22118#1,090108
1994#4,84520#1,17894
1993#4,99819#1,23884
1992#5,71816#1,037111
1991#9,3368#1,14792
1990—#1,22680
1989#10,8476#926120
1988—#1,01393
1987#9,8256#921105
1986—#1,02881
1985—#1,08373
1984—#1,12365
1983—#1,15361
1982—#96587
1981—#1,00981
1980—#92094
1979—#98481
1978—#89193
1977—#90987
1976—#89785
1975—#1,11457
1974—#97770
1973—#1,00664
1972—#1,77125
1971—#2,97311
1970—#3,07110
1969—#4,4045
1968—#4,1365
1967——
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1964—#3,6016
1963—#3,6466
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1961—#4,0655
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1958—#3,9445
1957—#3,2577
1956——
1955—#2,7649
1954—#3,1767
1953—#3,7985
1952—#3,7345
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1949—#3,6905
1948—#2,7888
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1945—#3,3385
1944—#2,8627
1943——
1942—#3,2126
1941—#2,33310
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1938—#2,4799
1937——
1936—#3,1476
1935—#3,6455
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1932—#2,8498
1931—#2,32811
1930—#2,60910
1929—#2,58910
1928—#2,52211
1927—#2,9129
1926—#3,3857
1925—#2,31313
1924—#3,2608
1923—#4,2395
1922—#2,34713
1921—#2,26514
1920—#2,05216
1919—#2,06315
1918—#2,69910
1917—#1,98615
1916—#1,84916
1915—#1,60019
1914—#2,4578
1913—#1,9459
1912—#2,5445
1911—#1,5376
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1897—#1,0575
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1894—#9546
1893—#1,0355
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1891—#59710
1890—#6679
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1888—#8157
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1882—#9435
1881—#7816
1880—#60010
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Uriah was already there! It came in at #600, and was given to 10 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1882–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Uriah is popular in 1915

No state had 5 or more boys named Uriah in 1915, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Uriah
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 3 spots since 2024 (#651 → #648)
  • 13 spots since 2020 (#635 → #648)
  • 71 spots since 2015 (#577 → #648)
  • Biggest jump: 328 spots in 2008 (#1,025 → #697)
  • Biggest drop: 300 spots in 1990 (#926 → #1,226)
Rise & fade · boys
134 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 2014 at #504 (559 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 35 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 2008–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,436
  • Highest: 1 in 3,436 boys born in 2014 were named Uriah (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,000 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 40.2% of all boys named Uriah (4,850) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s28#600 (1880)#785
1890s35#597 (1891)#862
1900s0——
1910s103#1,537 (1911)#2,076
1920s106#2,052 (1920)#2,788
1930s49#2,328 (1931)#2,843
1940s41#2,333 (1941)#3,037
1950s38#2,764 (1955)#3,446
1960s27#3,601 (1964)#3,970
1970s583#891 (1978)#1,459
1980s860#920 (1980)#1,014
1990s1,048#981 (1997)#1,123
2000s1,888#595 (2009)#1,035
2010s4,850#504 (2014)#560
2020s2,421#635 (2020)#669

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Uriah in 1915

boys
#1,600
19 births · 1 in 44,662 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #1,600Uriah19
More about 1915

boys

848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 44,662 of them was named Uriah, which outranked 63.6% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Uriah
  1. #1,553Theophilus20
  2. #1,553Waverly20
  3. #1,553Woodford20
  4. #1,600Uriah19
  5. #1,600Addie19
  6. #1,600Adrain19
  7. #1,600Alban19
  8. #1,660Abbott18
  9. #1,660Aime18
  10. #1,660Alto18

Tied with 59 names at #1,600; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. ↑ 691Eston#1,687 → #996
  2. ↑ 565Estill#1,545 → #980
  3. ↑ 545Garth#1,260 → #715
  4. ↑ 474Hiroshi#1,342 → #868
  5. ↑ 439Domingo#1,101 → #662
Fallers
  1. ↓ 674Gilmore#986 → #1,660
  2. ↓ 667Barnett#933 → #1,600
  3. ↓ 526Rose#884 → #1,410
  4. ↓ 517Toivo#855 → #1,372
  5. ↓ 461Sampson#949 → #1,410

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1915 →