girls:
85 births since 2008
#5631 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.6k births since 2000
#2071 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 2000
#4522 (42nd percentile)
The name Urijah is the #4,522 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,679 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 41.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,071 (54.8% percentile) for all time with 3,594 births since 2000. For girls, it ranks #5,631 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 85 births since 2008.
Urijah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Urijah is available in 22 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (22 years for boys and 8 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 Urijah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Urijah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 40.2% percentile (ranked #539) with 190 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 190 births per million (ranked 40.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Urijah ranks #862 for boys (5.4% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 15.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Urijah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #947) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Urijah".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Urijah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.7% confident that Urijah is pronounced as yue-RAI-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yoo-RAI-juh, at 19.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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