Marah

Where Marah comes from

Borrowed from Arabic مَرَح (maraḥ).
— Wiktionary's entry for Marah
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #6,767 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Peak, #1,443
    110 babies named Marah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,322.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic, from Arabic, which means merriness, cheerfulness.
  • A female given name from Hebrew, from Hebrew which means bitterness. Biblical variant: Mara.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.