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Urijah

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Urijah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 51 births. Its best rank was 619th, in 2009.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
510.00% of boys
Peak year
2009403 births
Best rank
#619in 2009
Since 2000
3,733people given the name
Babies named Urijah, by year of birthboys
012525037550018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

3,648 boys have been named Urijah in the United States since 2000, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 403 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 71%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 85 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Urijah
2000s695
2010s2,579
2020s374

In 2009, its biggest year

Urijah was the 619th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.

Names that rose and fell with Urijah

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.