Baby names starting with U
5 names beginning with U, each with an editorial meaning and origin note and its real popularity rank from the 2025 U.S. Social Security Administration data. Rank is U.S.-only and reflects how records are grouped in that source.
- Ulises Spanish form of Ulysses, the Latin name for Greek Odysseus, hero of Homer's Odyssey; the poem itself links the Greek name to 'odyssasthai' = to be angry, to hate
- Ulysses Latin form of Odysseus, the Greek hero; the Greek name's root is uncertain, linked in the Odyssey to 'odyssasthai' = to be angry, to be hated
- Umar Arabic 'Umar, from the root '-m-r linked to 'umr' = life, long life; borne by the second caliph
- Uriah from Hebrew Uriyah = 'Yahweh is my light'
- Uriel from Hebrew Uri'el = 'God is my light', from 'ur' = flame, light
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