Moriah
#1,092 for girls in 2025, 221 births · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #8,889
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 517 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,399since 1968
Moriah over time
Rank among girls' names. Moriah has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,092 | 221 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,207 | 196 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,032 | 246 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,309 | 180 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,273 | 182 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,196 | 193 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,123 | 216 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #1,181 | 203 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #1,058 | 242 | — | |
| 2016 | #960 | 282 | — | |
| 2015 | #972 | 278 | — | |
| 2014 | #970 | 275 | — | |
| 2013 | #941 | 268 | — | |
| 2012 | #862 | 309 | — | |
| 2011 | #821 | 323 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #776 | 354 | — | |
| 2009 | #751 | 378 | #4,748 | 20 |
| 2008 | #813 | 353 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #875 | 319 | — | |
| 2006 | #895 | 297 | — | |
| 2005 | #842 | 301 | — | |
| 2004 | #840 | 293 | — | |
| 2003 | #809 | 305 | — | |
| 2002 | #848 | 272 | — | |
| 2001 | #761 | 314 | — | |
| 2000 | #674 | 358 | — | |
| 1999 | #608 | 398 | — | |
| 1998 | #545 | 457 | — | |
| 1997 | #489 | 504 | — | |
| 1996 | #488 | 488 | — | |
| 1995 | #480 | 516 | — | |
| 1994 | #497 | 499 | — | |
| 1993 | #493 | 507 | — | |
| 1992 | #477 | 517 | — | |
| 1991 | #497 | 477 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #796 | 252 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #948 | 187 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #979 | 169 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,150 | 128 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #1,142 | 125 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,249 | 109 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,350 | 89 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #1,411 | 83 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,345 | 92 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,396 | 88 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #1,528 | 77 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #1,461 | 82 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #1,422 | 81 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,662 | 59 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,321 | 35 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,760 | 51 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,223 | 35 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | — | |
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| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Moriah! It came in at #5,147, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Moriah is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alaska#182 · 1 in 706
- New Mexico#371 · 1 in 1,831
- Minnesota#437 · 1 in 3,536
- Colorado#486 · 1 in 3,430
- Ohio#581 · 1 in 5,373
Best ever in a state: #120 in Vermont, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #182 | 5 | 1 in 706 |
| New Mexico | #371 | 5 | 1 in 1,831 |
| Minnesota | #437 | 8 | 1 in 3,536 |
| Colorado | #486 | 6 | 1 in 3,430 |
| Ohio | #581 | 13 | 1 in 5,373 |
| Massachusetts | #589 | 7 | 1 in 5,499 |
| Arizona | #711 | 5 | 1 in 5,086 |
| Pennsylvania | #928 | 7 | 1 in 10,261 |
| New York | #1,038 | 12 | 1 in 9,899 |
| California | #1,046 | 25 | 1 in 9,759 |
| Michigan | #1,049 | 5 | 1 in 12,090 |
| Florida | #1,203 | 6 | 1 in 12,837 |
| Texas | #1,222 | 11 | 1 in 12,126 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Moriah
- 115 spots since 2024 (#1,207 → #1,092)
- 104 spots since 2020 (#1,196 → #1,092)
- 120 spots since 2015 (#972 → #1,092)
- Biggest jump: 299 spots in 1991 (#796 → #497)
- Biggest drop: 98 spots in 2017 (#960 → #1,058)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1992 at #477 (517 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1988–2016
- Highest: 1 in 3,408 girls born in 1995 were named Moriah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,273 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #477 in 1992, was only 1 in 3,567 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.4% of all girls named Moriah (4,615) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 8 | #5,147 (1968) | #5,147 |
| 1970s | 471 | #1,380 (1977) | #2,376 |
| 1980s | 1,147 | #948 (1989) | #1,250 |
| 1990s | 4,615 | #477 (1992) | #537 |
| 2000s | 3,190 | #674 (2000) | #811 |
| 2010s | 2,750 | #776 (2010) | #966 |
| 2020s | 1,218 | #1,032 (2023) | #1,185 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Moriah in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 9,859 of them was named Moriah, which outranked 93.5% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 333,488 of them was named Moriah, which outranked 24.8% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,229Zekiel7
- #6,229Zubin7
- #6,229Zvi7
- #6,941Moriah6
- #6,941Aaran6
- #6,941Abayomi6
- #6,941Abrham6
- #7,905Aakeem5
- #7,905Aaric5
- #7,905Aaronmichael5
Tied with 963 names at #6,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.