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)
The name Mariah is the #620 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 113,778 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #335 (94.2% percentile) for all time with 113,595 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,403 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 183 births since 1976.
Mariah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1976 for boys).
The name Mariah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mariah reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 93.0% percentile (ranked #62) with 2,623 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 2,841 births per million (ranked 92.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mariah ranks #366 for girls (61.4% percentile) with 444 births per million, which is 15.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mariah reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #760) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mariah".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Mariah.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Mariah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Mariah.
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mariah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.1% confident that Mariah is pronounced as muh-RAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mer-AI-uh, at 37.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Mariah? 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.
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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker