Yuriah
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- yoo-RYE-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Yuriah is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is my light”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Yuriah mean?
Hebrew: probably a variant of Uriah
“God is my light”
In the Bible, Uriah the Hittite is the soldier husband of Bathsheba.
Is Yuriah a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Yuriah has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls and 12 boys in the US.
How popular is Yuriah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,799th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Yuriah, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 2010. 9 girls were also named Yuriah in 2025 (10,104th for girls).
2025 had the most boys named Yuriah of any year since it first appeared, in 2010.
Half of all the boys named Yuriah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yuriah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
Names like Yuriah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Asaiah, Asiah, Eziah, Azaiah, Uzziah, Azariah, Jasiah, Yahir, Oziah, Amaziah, Massiah, Zamir
Names related to Yuriah
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, “Yuriah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yuriah, updated 20 October 2026.