Mariah
Mariah is ranked 413th among girls in 2024 (756 births). Its best rank was 62nd, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- #413down 20 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7560.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 19965,446 births
- Best rank
- #62in 1998
- Since 1880
- 114,380people given the name
The story in the numbers
114,380 girls have been named Mariah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 5,446 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 137 → 413).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 39%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mariah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 222 | |
| 1890s | 256 | |
| 1900s | 213 | |
| 1910s | 308 | |
| 1920s | 275 | |
| 1930s | 187 | |
| 1940s | 137 | |
| 1950s | 115 | |
| 1960s | 154 | |
| 1970s | 1,656 | |
| 1980s | 3,588 | |
| 1990s | 44,603 | |
| 2000s | 35,683 | |
| 2010s | 22,491 | |
| 2020s | 4,492 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Mariah was the 63rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Mariah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Taylarpeak 1998
- Jazminepeak 2006
- Kaylynpeak 1997
- Karleypeak 2005
- Klarissapeak 1998
- Karishmapeak 1994
- Keirrapeak 2008
- Morghanpeak 2006
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.