Uriya
Hebrew at root, carrying the sense "Yahweh is my light". Fewer than twenty men in Poland answer to it, and none have been born this century: most Poles will never meet one.
Uriya Pronunciation
Uriya is pronounced oor-YIH-ah (/urˈjɨa/).
What Uriya means
Where Uriya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uriya comes from Hebrew. It joins uri, "my light," to yah, a shortened form of the divine name. The meaning reads plainly: Yahweh is my light. The name belongs to the Jewish tradition, where a child is often given a small sentence about God.
The older spelling Uriah appears in the Hebrew Bible. Uriah the Hittite served in King David's army and died at the front after David arranged for him to be left there. A second Uriah, a prophet, is named in the book of Jeremiah and put to death by a king. So the name reaches modern parents already attached to men who stood in hard places.
Modern Israeli families revived the shorter Uriya, and it reads as a boy's name in Hebrew today. There are no common diminutives or variants beside it. On a Polish class register it would stand out as foreign and legible at once. The sense holds steady: Yahweh is my light.
How many people are named Uriya
1 in 1524728 men in Poland is named Uriya. 14 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13053 among male names.