Cariyah

#12,161 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Cariyah has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #12,161 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Cariyah, 2025

1 in 474,000

Cariyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Cariyah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,161
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cariyah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cariyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cariyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cariyah was born before 2017 — so the typical Cariyah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
89
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.2% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Cariyah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,645
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+232
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,560
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,601
2015

Spellings of Cariyah

Cariyah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 19.2% against Cariyah's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cariyah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,161
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 232
Best rank ever
#9,601
2015
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
89
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Cariyah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Cariyah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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