Mariah

Where Mariah comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mariah.

  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Mariah through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #342 among girls, with 22 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1971
    Mariah O'Brien born
    American actress, model and interior designer
  3. 1990
    Around this time: Vision of Love by Mariah Carey
    Song, 1990 · Source
    “The name was rarely given in the United States prior to the 1990s, when it rose in popularity from rank 562 in 1989 to rank 62 in 1998, in imitation of the name of singer-songwriter Mariah Carey (whose single "Vision of Love" topped the charts in 1990).”
  4. 1996
    Mariah Bell born
    American figure skater
  5. 1998
    Peak, #62
    5,086 babies named Mariah, its best rank.
  6. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #137.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria used since the nineteenth century. Popularized by singer Mariah Carey in the 1990s
Namesakes
  • Mariah Bell · American figure skater, born 1996
  • Mariah O'Brien · American actress, model and interior designer, born 1971
  • Mariah the Scientist · American singer, born 1997
  • Mariah Buzolin · Brazilian actress, born 1991
  • Mariah Nogueira · American soccer player, born 1991

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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name. Quotes are from the linked Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).