Uriah

(male) Biblical name (from Hebrew, meaning ‘God is light’), borne by a Hittite warrior treacherously disposed of by King David after he had made Uriah's wife Bathsheba pregnant (2 Samuel 11). The Greek form Urias occurs in the New Testament (Matthew 1:6). The name was used occasionally from the 16th century onwards, but is now most closely associated with the character of the obsequious Uriah Heep in Dickens's David Copperfield (1850) and has consequently undergone a sharp decline in popularity.