Mariah

girls:

113.6k births since 1880

#335 (94th percentile)

boys:

183 births since 1976

#4403 (4th percentile)

overall:

113.8k births since 1880

#620 (92nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mariah".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
113,595
Peak Births
5,446
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
93.0%
Current Percentile
61.4%
Peak Rank
#62
Current Rank
#366
Female statistics
Total Births
183
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
1992
First Recorded
1976
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#656
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Mariah

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mariah. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.1% confident that Mariah is pronounced as muh-RAI-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-AI-uh, at 37.0% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Mariah. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Mariah, please vote using the thumbs up button.

mah-RAI-uh (3 syllables)
11 names 10.3k births
M AA0 R AY1 AH0
mih-RAI-uh (3 syllables)
4 names 2.7k births
M IH0 R AY1 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 R AY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.