Uriah is a variant of the Hebrew name Uriyah meaning ‘Yahweh is my light’. It consists of ‘ur’ meaning ‘light, flame’ and ‘yah’ referring to the Hebrew God.
Uriah is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Uriah isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Uriah ranks 551. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Uriah. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Uriah.
Uriah is a variant of the Hebrew name Uriyah meaning ‘Yahweh is my light’. It consists of ‘ur’ meaning ‘light, flame’ and ‘yah’ referring to the Hebrew God.
Uriah has been... in use in the U.S. since at least the 19th century, but only since the 2000s has it become somewhat more popular.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter U is very rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 0.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter X is even rarer as the first letter of boys' names. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Uriah is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 0.4% of all boys' names starting with U, all other letters occur on average more than nine times as often. Moreover, of the comparatively few boys' names that start with U, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Uriel.
If your name is Uriah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Uriah, you can simply say:
Unicorn
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Uriah
Uriah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
U
R
I
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
U
R
I
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Uriah sounds like this:
