Mariah

What Mariah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Mariah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 5,446 babies; 693 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mariah?

US: Falling: down from #152 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1007 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 5,446 girls got the name (#63 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,319 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,046 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (2.22 per 1,000 girls), AL (1.15 per 1,000 girls), MS (1.01 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Mariah is #447 in the US and #1166 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Mariah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maria2,887 US · 522 E&W
• Marie474 US · 47 E&W
• Moriah221 US · 20 E&W
• Marea7 US
• Mariia0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mariah

Girls

• Jenna#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025
• Molly#196Editor’s note Down from #144 in 2015 to #196 in 2025 in the US
• Gabriela#317Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 3,362 babies; 961 in 2025
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Rebekah#884“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*

For a brother

• Jacob#43“May He Heel”^*
• Seth#581“chosen one, appointed, placed”^*
• Jordan#131Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #59 in 2015, #131 in 2025
• Johnathan#508Variant of Jonathan, meaning “God has given”^*
• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mariah’s. Rank is US 2025.