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Mariyah

#2,399 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Mariyah has been given to 6,555 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #2,399 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 431 recorded.

Babies named Mariyah, 2025

1 in 44,200

Mariyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariyah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Maria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariyah means

Mariyah belongs to the name family reached through Mariyah → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mariyah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and מרים.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,555 girls were recorded with the name Mariyah between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 431 in 2009; its best national rank was #671 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,326 in 2020 to #2,399 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #979 in 2015 to #2,399 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mariyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,399
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariyah 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariyah was born before 2011 — so the typical Mariyah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,555
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (3,103).

Is Mariyah 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
−362
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,073
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,420
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.27×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.4%
Peak was 2009 (431)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#671
2011

Spellings of Mariyah

Mariyah is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 38.3% against Mariyah's 0.44%.

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.

Where Mariyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Mariyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,282 girls, against 1 in 7,944 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

178 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,282
  2. 2Alabama1 in 2,857
  3. 3Georgia1 in 3,125
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 3,226
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 3,571
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 3,704
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 5,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 5,556

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Mariyah around the world

Where Mariyah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2012
    #665
    in 2012
  • France
    2010–2025
    #1,850
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mariyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,073
Best rank ever
#671
2011
Peak year
2009
431 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,555
Count in 2025
75

Names similar to Mariyah

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

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Names with a curve like Mariyah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mariyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mariyah

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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