Uziah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- yuh-ZY-uh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,190 for boys
Uziah is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is my strength”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).
What does Uziah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Uzziah
“God is my strength”
Uzziah was a king of Judah; Isaiah dates his vision of God in the Temple to the year King Uzziah died.
Meaning borrowed from Uzziah.
Is Uziah a girl's or a boy's name?
Uziah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Uziah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,190th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 160,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Uziah, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Uziah than any year since 2016.
Half of all the boys named Uziah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 75 boys in the US were given Uziah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,754, up from #7,190 for this spelling alone.
- Uzziah 64
- Uziah 11
Uziah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,190 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,063 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,882 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,299 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,358 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,149 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,627 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,939 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,475 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,486 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
Names like Uziah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Asaiah, Zamir, Muhammad, Azaiah, Abdullah, Ibrahim, Zahir, Zayd, Asiah, Hamza, Azariah
Other spellings of Uziah
Names related to Uziah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Uziah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/uziah, updated 20 October 2026.