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Moria

Girls' name

Form of Moriah

Moria has been given to 557 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Moria, 2024

1 in 478,000

Moria over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moria: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Moriah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Moria means

Moria is a form of Moriah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Moria is used in Hebrew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Moria → Moriah. The family’s proposed meaning is “seen by Yahweh”, recorded in the naming reference for Moriah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Moriah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 557 girls were recorded with the name Moria between 1952 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,138 in 1977.

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.

How common is Moria?

Moria had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moria 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Morias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moria was born before 1981 — so the typical Moria is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
557
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Moria 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (25)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,138
1977

Spellings of Moria

Moria is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 10.0% against Moria'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.

Where Moria is used

Across 1910–2025, Moria was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 640,511 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Moria has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Moria around the world

Where Moria 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
    2023–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #502
    in 1955

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Moria by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,138
1977
Peak year
1977
25 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
557
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Moria

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

MoraZuriaAariaZoriaNuriaMornaKyriaAbriaArriaMorganaNariaMoreliaMorgannXariaMoriyahSariaMorayoMorgenAuriaDoriaMorrisAhriaAmeriaIlaria

Sibling names for Moria

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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