girls:
127 births since 2007
#5589 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1913
#3433 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1913
#6443 (17th percentile)
The name Uri is the #6,443 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,299 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 16.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,433 (25.1% percentile) for all time with 1,172 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,589 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 127 births since 2007.
Uri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 2007 for girls). Birth data for Uri is available in 60 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 14 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Uri has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 84.5% of babies named Uri were boys.
For boys, Uri reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #856) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 33 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Uri is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #856 (6.0% percentile) with 33 births per million.
For girls, Uri reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #928) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Uri ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 65.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Uri".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Uri", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Yuri" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Yuri..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Uri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.5% confident that Uri is pronounced as YOO-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YER-ee, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Y UH1 R IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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