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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#188 · 1 in 917
- New Hampshire#211 · 1 in 983
- Kansas#275 · 1 in 1,382
- Washington#304 · 1 in 1,507
- Iowa#308 · 1 in 1,715
Best ever in a state: #120 in Vermont, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #188 | 8 | 1 in 917 |
| New Hampshire | #211 | 5 | 1 in 983 |
| Kansas | #275 | 9 | 1 in 1,382 |
| Washington | #304 | 19 | 1 in 1,507 |
| Iowa | #308 | 8 | 1 in 1,715 |
| Colorado | #311 | 14 | 1 in 1,496 |
| Wisconsin | #311 | 14 | 1 in 1,788 |
| Oregon | #324 | 10 | 1 in 1,614 |
| Nebraska | #326 | 5 | 1 in 1,645 |
| Nevada | #326 | 6 | 1 in 1,424 |
| Tennessee | #329 | 15 | 1 in 1,961 |
| Minnesota | #379 | 11 | 1 in 2,270 |
| Ohio | #382 | 25 | 1 in 2,473 |
| Oklahoma | #397 | 8 | 1 in 2,102 |
| Arizona | #400 | 14 | 1 in 2,005 |
| Georgia | #417 | 17 | 1 in 2,516 |
| Missouri | #422 | 11 | 1 in 2,684 |
| Kentucky | #423 | 7 | 1 in 2,823 |
| Michigan | #447 | 18 | 1 in 2,887 |
| Maryland | #448 | 9 | 1 in 2,627 |
| North Carolina | #448 | 14 | 1 in 2,861 |
| Indiana | #466 | 11 | 1 in 2,981 |
| South Carolina | #466 | 6 | 1 in 2,684 |
| Virginia | #496 | 10 | 1 in 3,326 |
| Pennsylvania | #509 | 16 | 1 in 3,642 |
| Florida | #524 | 22 | 1 in 3,334 |
| California | #570 | 61 | 1 in 3,653 |
| Illinois | #571 | 19 | 1 in 3,680 |
| Louisiana | #578 | 6 | 1 in 3,607 |
| Texas | #629 | 34 | 1 in 4,114 |
| Massachusetts | #690 | 5 | 1 in 6,360 |
| New York | #842 | 16 | 1 in 6,313 |
| New Jersey | #993 | 5 | 1 in 8,351 |
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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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 3,454 of them was named Moriah, which outranked 97.0% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).