Lariah
Lariah was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,168 among girls’ names; 1,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Lariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lariah?
#5,168 among girls’ names, 2025
Lariah fell from #2,986 in 2015 to #5,168 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 15.6 per million.
104 babies in 2009, the peak
Lariah peaked in 2009, when 104 girls were given it, #1,999 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,168 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,722 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,699 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,076 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,367 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,753 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,720 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,989 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,762 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,358 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,986 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,027 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,027 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,920 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,542 | 40.4 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,531 | 41.1 |
| 2009 | 104 | #1,999 | 56.6 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,259 | 46.0 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,410 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,961 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,075 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,468 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,171 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,789 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,776 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,821 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,994 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,551 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,533 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,733 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,698 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,094 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,712 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,148 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,826 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lariah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lariah, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,239 Americans ever recorded as Lariah. The median Lariah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 815 people named Lariah (808 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,051 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 40 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 639 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 550 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,577 babies since 1880, Lariah is the third most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 496 babies (5.0%), again the third most given.
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 Lariah
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 Lariah and names like it
- Compare Lariah and LaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Lariah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lariah alive today were born 1997-2012.
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