Uriah is a Hebrew name that means "Yahweh is my light", from ur, flame or light. In the Old Testament Uriah the Hittite is the loyal soldier whose wife Bathsheba King David takes for himself, and Dickens later gave the name to the scheming Uriah Heep in David Copperfield. In the United States Uriah has been in the top 1000 since 2008, peaked at number 505 in 2014 and ranks 650 in 2025.