Jariah
Jariah is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,020 among girls’ names and #6,965 among boys’, #5,779 among all names counting both); 1,686 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Jariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jariah?
#4,020 among girls’ names, 2025
Jariah fell from #2,664 in 2015 to #4,020 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 22.4 per million.
108 babies in 2009, the peak
Jariah peaked in 2009, when 108 babies were given it (87 girls, #2,254 among girls’ names). The 48 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,020 | 12 | #6,965 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,783 | 17 | #5,530 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,448 | 17 | #5,550 |
| 2022 | 49 | #3,292 | 18 | #5,297 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,180 | 17 | #5,426 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,863 | 18 | #5,120 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,248 | 10 | #7,887 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,178 | 10 | #7,838 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,033 | 8 | #9,206 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,990 | 11 | #7,342 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,664 | 12 | #6,844 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,245 | 6 | #11,306 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,988 | 14 | #6,045 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,786 | 11 | #7,245 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,443 | 12 | #6,761 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,023 | 19 | #4,921 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,254 | 21 | #4,648 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,182 | 17 | #5,342 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,225 | 9 | #8,489 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,679 | 8 | #9,069 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,708 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,521 | 9 | #7,802 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,202 | 7 | #9,077 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,153 | 5 | #11,432 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,259 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,378 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,022 | 5 | #10,613 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,279 | 7 | #7,936 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,989 | 5 | #9,902 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,032 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,327 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,416 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,140 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,677 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,686 Americans recorded as Jariah, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jariah, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,686 Americans ever recorded as Jariah. The median Jariah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,061 people named Jariah (860 women and girls, 201 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,331 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 23 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 837 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 807 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jariah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,757 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jariah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,699 babies since 1880, Jariah is the most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 177 babies (27%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jariah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jariah and names like it
- Compare Jariah and JariyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJariah peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jariah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.