Uria
Hebrew at root, from a name meaning "God is my light". Fewer than a dozen men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Uria Pronunciation
Uria is pronounced OOR-yah (/ˈurja/).
What Uria means
Where Uria comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Uria comes from Hebrew, from Uriyah, where the element "ur" means light or flame and "yah" names Yahweh. The meaning reads as "God is my light." The name belongs to Jewish tradition, and its most documented bearer sits in the Hebrew Bible.
That bearer is Uriah the Hittite, a soldier in King David's army, whose death David arranged in the second book of Samuel. Another Uriah serves as a priest in the book of Isaiah. The name moved through Jewish communities without picking up Polish diminutives. It has no standard variant.
A Polish teacher reading a class register meets Uria as it stands, four letters, no nickname to shorten on the attendance list. The short form and the full form are one word. What the name states holds fixed: God is my light.
How many people are named Uria
1 in 2371799 men in Poland is named Uria. 9 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #18064 among male names.
Uria as a middle name
Uria is a first name for 9 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6964th, between Ulrik (3) and Utkarsh (3).
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#6962 Uba3
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#6963 Ulrik3
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#6964 Uria3
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#6965 Utkarsh3
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#6966 Uygar3