Uzziah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Uzziah is a strong biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'Yahweh is my strength' (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/uzziah/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Uzziah is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Uzziah is also written עוזיהו in Hebrew.
- ILIsrael1 in 91Kas עוזיהו(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Uzziah itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
95 named עוזיהו, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, as עוזיהו
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Uzziah in other scripts: Hebrew and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled עוזיהו in IL Israel and Uziyahu in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Uzziah
- Indonesian:/uzziah/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Uzziah is a strong biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'Yahweh is my strength.' A less common name from the Old Testament, it belongs to an ancestor of the famed temple musician Heman, connecting it to a legacy of worship and strength in faith. Azariah is a related Hebrew name meaning 'Yahweh has helped,' and is also found in the Bible for several figures.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Uzziah is found
(measured from records)Uzziah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 95as עוזיהו | 1 in 91K | 95 | עוזיהו | 15 |
| US United States | — | — | 573 | Uziyahu | 9 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | 2 | — | — |
95 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Uzziah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Uzziah is a strong, biblical boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my strength." It is associated with a powerful and prosperous, though ultimately flawed, king of Judah, offering a name with deep historical and religious roots.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Uzziah (Hebrew: ʻUzzīyyāhū) means "My strength is Yahweh". His alternate name, Azariah (Hebrew: ʻAzaryā), means "Yahweh has helped". Ozias is the Greek form of Uzziah.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
A biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'My strength is Yahweh.' Uzziah was a descendant of Judah who was part of the community that resettled Jerusalem after the exile.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Uzziah (עֻזִּיָּהוּ, ʻUzzīyyāhū) means "my strength is Yahweh". The name Azariah (עֲזַרְיָה, ʻAzaryāh) means "Yahweh has helped".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
The name Uzziah is of Hebrew origin and means "My strength is Yahweh" or "Yahweh is my strength".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Uzziah come from?
- Uzziah is a strong biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'Yahweh is my strength.' A less common name from the Old Testament, it belongs to an ancestor of the famed temple musician Heman, connecting i… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What does the name Uzziah mean?
- Recorded meaning: Uzziah is a strong biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'Yahweh is my strength.'
- What are other forms of the name Uzziah?
- In the etymology graph, Ozias, Azaziah and Azazias are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Uzziah?
- In Indonesian /uzziah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Uzziah a male or female name?
- Uzziah is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Uzziah have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 95 people named עוזיהו, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Uzziah most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Uzziah itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 91 thousand people named עוזיהו.
- How common is the name Uzziah?
- In Israel, the national register counted 95 people named עוזיהו in 2017, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uzziahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Uzziah” — ranked 11312th in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.