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Moriah

#1,093 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly seen by Yahweh

Moriah has been given to 13,507 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #1,093 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 517 recorded.

Babies named Moriah, 2025

1 in 15,000

Moriah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moriah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly seen by Yahweh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Moriah means

Moriah may mean “seen by Yahweh”.

Origin, language, and formation

Moriah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,399 girls were recorded with the name Moriah between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 517 in 1992; its best national rank was #478 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,197 in 2020 to #1,093 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #975 in 2015 to #1,093 in 2025.

In the United States, 108 boys were recorded with the name Moriah between 1979 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,811 in 1981.

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 Moriah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,000
221 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,270
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,093
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,399 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moriah 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,399 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moriah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moriahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moriah was born before 2001 — so the typical Moriah is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13,399
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (4,615).

Is Moriah 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
+119
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+104
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−118
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.7%
Peak was 1992 (517)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#478
1992

Spellings of Moriah

Moriah is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 42.1% against Moriah's 1.00%.

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 Moriah is used

Across 2016–2025, Moriah was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 7,525 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 33,333).

326 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 3,846
  2. 2Georgia1 in 4,348
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 4,348
  4. 4Alabama1 in 4,545
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 4,762
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 5,000
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 5,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 5,263

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.

Moriah around the world

Where Moriah 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
    2002–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,715
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2010
    #521
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Notable people named Moriah

People whose public names include Moriah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Moriah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Moriah. Linked forms have their own page here.

MoiraMoriaMoïra

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Moriah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,093
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 104
Best rank ever
#478
1992
Peak year
1992
517 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,399
Count in 2025
221

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,811
1981
Peak year
2009
20 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
108
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Moriah

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

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Names with a curve like Moriah

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

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Sibling names for Moriah

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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