girls:
861 births since 1987
#4855 (15th percentile)
boys:
11.2k births since 1880
#1092 (76th percentile)
overall:
12.1k births since 1880
#2393 (69th percentile)
The name Uriah is the #2,393 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,076 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 69.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,092 (76.2% percentile) for all time with 11,215 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,855 (15.0% percentile) for all time with 861 births since 1987.
Uriah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1987 for girls). Birth data for Uriah is available in 105 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (105 years for boys and 35 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 Uriah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.7% of babies named Uriah were boys.
For boys, Uriah reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #461) with 272 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 272 births per million (ranked 49.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Uriah ranks #565 for boys (38.0% percentile) with 206 births per million, which is 75.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Uriah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #922) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Uriah ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 57.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Uriah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Uriah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.7% confident that Uriah is pronounced as yoo-RAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YOO-rai-uh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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