Marriah — girls' name
702 babies named Marriah in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1995. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Marriah was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Marriah in 1995 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marriah
The Social Security Administration has registered 702 babies named Marriah between 1974 and 2021, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marriah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 49 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marriah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 314 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Marriah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 48 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Marriah in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marriah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 702 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Marriah at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marriah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1974
- Peak year (1995)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 48 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
702 total births across 48 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1995 with 49 births in a single year.
Marriah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 314 births that decade — 45% of Marriah's all-time total
Marriah decade highlights
- Peak decade 314 births
- Runner-up 192 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Marriah's strongest decade
314 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Marriah by state
Where Marriah concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 48 | 6.8% |
| #2 | Texas | | 12 | 1.7% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 6 | 0.9% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #6 | Washington | | 5 | 0.7% |
48 of 702 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.8% of nationwide
- Texas 1.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.9% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.7% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.