The name Uriel comes from the Hebrew name Uri’el meaning ‘God is my light’. Uriel is an archangel in Hebrew tradition. He is mentioned only in the Apocrypha, for example in the Book of Enoch where he warns Noah of the coming flood.
Uriel is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Uriel 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, Uriel ranks 477. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Uriel. In the entire USA, approximately 17,305 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Uriel. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Uriel comes from the Hebrew name Uri’el meaning ‘God is my light’. Uriel is an archangel in Hebrew tradition. He is mentioned only in the Apocrypha, for example in the Book of Enoch where he warns Noah of the coming flood.
Uriel is a popular... name in Israel and Mexico, for example. In the U.S., it has been somewhat more common since the 2000s.
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 Uriel 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 Uriel 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 Uriel, you can simply say:
Unicorn
Rocket
Igloo
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Uriel
Uriel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
U
R
I
E
L
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
E
L
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. Uriel sounds like this:
