Given name & surname
Urie
“my light; light of the Lord”
Urie is a variant of Uri. One Hebrew interpretation is “my light; light of the Lord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Urie is a variant of Uri. One Hebrew interpretation is “my light; light of the Lord.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Urie connects to the Uriah name family through Uri. An origin associated with Uriah is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Urie connects to the Uriah name family through Uri. The history of Uriah gives this family its wider story. Uriah appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Urie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 229
- 229 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,639 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −26%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,639 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 325 as a first name in 2020; 1,049 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Urie’s family of names
Urie has a related form in Uri. In French usage, Urie has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Uriasz. In English usage, Urie as a surname has a related form in Urey.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Urie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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