Maryah
Maryah was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,168 among girls’ names; 2,186 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Maryah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maryah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maryah?
#8,168 among girls’ names, 2025
Maryah fell from #3,165 in 2015 to #8,168 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 8.1 per million.
124 babies in 2008, the peak
Maryah peaked in 2008, when 124 girls were given it, #1,785 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,168 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,563 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,091 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,574 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,344 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,130 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,856 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,979 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,920 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,752 | 35.6 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,165 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,527 | 39.7 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,205 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,256 | 47.7 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,813 | 63.7 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,287 | 47.3 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,970 | 57.7 |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,785 | 65.6 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,207 | 46.8 |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,059 | 50.5 |
| 2005 | 93 | #2,025 | 50.3 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,571 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,688 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,656 | 32.3 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,501 | 34.4 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,726 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,191 | 38.9 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,270 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,937 | 43.1 |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,168 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,502 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,345 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,258 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,895 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,430 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,983 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,132 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,462 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,172 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,584 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,316 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,252 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,155 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,845 | 3.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,316 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maryah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maryah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maryah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maryah, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,186 Americans ever recorded as Maryah. The median Maryah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,674 people named Maryah (1,671 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,043 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 346 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 523 |
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 Maryah born?
The states with the most babies named Maryah are California, Texas and Florida, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 266 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 151 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 98 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Maryah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Maryah?
Maryah is a less common spelling of Maria: SSA has recorded 2,186 Maryah and 570,389 Maria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,880,121 babies since 1880, Maryah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 6,458 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Maryah
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 Maryah and names like it
- Compare Maryah and MariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaryah peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maryah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Maryah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maryah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.