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You can add the usage of "Biblical Latin" to this name, for Uriel is also the form used in the Clementine Vulgate (1592) and the Nova Vulgata ("Neo-Vulgate", 1979). These two are respectively the former and current official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.Sources used:
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Uriel#Latin (in English)
- Clementine Vulgate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto-Clementine_Vulgate (in English; note that it was the Church's official Bible for nearly 4 centuries!)
- Nova Vulgata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Vulgata (in English)
- 1 Chronicles 6:9 or 6:24 (Old Testament):
• Clementine Vulgate: https://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/html/1Par.html (in Latin)
• Nova Vulgata: https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_vt_i-paralipomenon_lt.html#6 (in Latin)
- 1 Chronicles 15:5 (Old Testament):
• Clementine Vulgate: https://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/html/1Par.html (in Latin)
• Nova Vulgata: https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_vt_i-paralipomenon_lt.html#15 (in Latin)
- 2 Chronicles 13:2 (Old Testament):
• Clementine Vulgate: https://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/html/2Par.html (in Latin)
• Nova Vulgata: https://www.vatican.va/archive/bible/nova_vulgata/documents/nova-vulgata_vt_ii-paralipomenon_lt.html#13 (in Latin)
Also used in Spanish. There are 1.700 bearers of this name in Spain (source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística).
A good twin name for ARIEL.
Can be used as a feminine name in American English, cp. ARIEL, MURIEL.
Still used as a surname in Spain and those in Spanish-speaking countries descended from them or who adopted the name.I didn't understand the part about only in the apocrypha, that applies to the archangel part, but not to the name itself, which IS in the Bible (KJV):1 Chronicles 15:5
5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:1 Chronicles 6:24
24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.1 Chronicles 15:11
11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, 2 Chronicles 13:2
2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

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