Variant of Uriah, from Hebrew meaning 'God is my light' or 'flame of the Lord.'
Urias is a variant spelling of Uriah, from the Hebrew Uriyah, meaning "God is my light" or "my flame is Yahweh" — a name that burns with devotional intensity. It appears in one of the Bible's most charged narratives: Uriah the Hittite was a soldier of unswerving loyalty in King David's army and the husband of Bathsheba. When David desired Bathsheba, he engineered Uriah's death by placing him at the front of battle — a story that has made the name a byword for honorable sacrifice in the face of power's corruption.
Uriah's dignity in that account is absolute, and the name carries that moral gravity. The spelling Urias was common in early modern Europe and colonial America, appearing in church records and legal documents as a respectable biblical choice. It lent itself to Portuguese and Spanish speakers in Catholic countries where Hebrew scripture names were filtered through Vulgate Latin, giving the name a slightly warmer, more Mediterranean phonetic quality than its English counterpart.
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley named a character Urias in one of his early works, and the name threads through nineteenth-century American census records with quiet frequency. Today Urias feels genuinely rare — distinctive enough to stand apart, grounded enough in deep history that it never seems invented. Baseball fans will recognize Julio Urías, the Mexican pitcher, who has given the name fresh contemporary resonance. It suits a child whose parents want something biblically rooted but genuinely uncommon.