girls:
13k births since 1968
#1371 (76th percentile)
boys:
108 births since 1979
#4478 (2nd percentile)
overall:
13.1k births since 1968
#2298 (70th percentile)
The name Moriah is the #2,298 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,086 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 70.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,371 (76.0% percentile) for all time with 12,978 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,478 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 108 births since 1979.
Moriah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Moriah is available in 55 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 13 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Moriah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Moriah reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 50.7% percentile (ranked #424) with 258 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 269 births per million (ranked 49.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Moriah ranks #710 for girls (25.1% percentile) with 140 births per million, which is 52.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Moriah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #886) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Moriah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Moriah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Moriah is pronounced as mer-AI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAW-ree-uh, at 24.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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