Uzziah
Masculine · “my strength is the Lord”
Uzziah is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,132 boys against 7 girls since 1880.
Uzziah is my strength is the Lord in Hebrew — and the king of that name reigned fifty-two years and died a leper for entering the temple.
How old is the name Uzziah?
Uzziah first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Uzziah is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Uzziah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Uzziah most popular?
Uzziah peaked in 2022, reaching #1720 nationally. Today it ranks #2207, 487 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Where it comes from
From oz Yah to Uzziah
The story of Uzziah
2 Chronicles has Uzziah reign fifty-two years, build towers and engines of war, grow strong and then proud, and burn incense in the temple himself — whereupon leprosy breaks out on his forehead and he lives apart until death. Isaiah dates his call to the year Uzziah died. The name is in current American use.
Meaning
my strength is the Lord
From the Hebrew Uzziyahu — oz, 'strength', with the possessive, and Yah, the divine name. The same oz appears in the Song of the Sea. The construction is transparent and the reading undisputed.
How the name formed
- oz Yah
- Uzziyahu
- Uzziah
Related forms: עוזיהו · Uziah · Uzías
Pronouncing Uzziah
uh-ZY-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Hebrew stresses the last, u-zi-YAH-hu.
Nicknames for Uzziah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 202298 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1720reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +6.7%64 in 2025, from 60
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Uzziah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- עוזיהו in Hebrew — transliteration
- Uziah in English — spelling variant
- Uzías in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Uzziahs among us
people named Uzziah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 26,689 born in 2025 was named Uzziah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marshel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Uzziah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marshel climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marshel's path sketches the road Uzziah is walking now.
Uzziah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Uzziah is headed
Uzziah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Uzziah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Uzziah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Isaiah dates his call to the year Uzziah died is a first-rate detail.
- The my-strength-is-the-Lord meaning is transparent and strong.
- Uzzi and Zia are two short forms, both real names elsewhere.
- The king's story ends in pride and disease.
- Uzziah and Uziah are both in circulation.
- It reads as strongly biblical and is rare.
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Frequently asked
- How many Uzziahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Uzziah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Uzziah in 2025?
- Uzziah ranks #2207 among US boy names in 2025, with 64 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Uzziah?
- About 1 in every 26,689 US boys born in 2025 was named Uzziah — 64 in all.
- Will my child share the name Uzziah with classmates?
- Uzziah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Uzziah
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