Miriah
Miriah was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,836 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,800 Americans named Miriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 27 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Miriah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,962, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
201 babies in 1991, the peak
Miriah peaked in 1991, when 201 girls were given it, #946 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,962 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,694 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,047 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,232 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,656 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,517 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,637 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,360 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,671 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,363 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | #6,769 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,904 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,254 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,234 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,186 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,430 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,452 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,023 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,168 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,393 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,785 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,049 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,227 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,058 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 82 | #1,822 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,906 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,675 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,566 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,380 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 147 | #1,190 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 201 | #946 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,088 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,016 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,129 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,139 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,886 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,693 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,201 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,758 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,626 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,961 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,281 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,862 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,755 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,675 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,971 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,453 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miriah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Miriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miriah, and how old are they?
1,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,836 Americans ever recorded as Miriah. The median Miriah alive today is 33 years old; half are between 27 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,546 people named Miriah (1,540 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,790 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 138 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 544 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 69 |
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 22,601 babies since 1880, Miriah is the third most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,118 babies recorded by SSA was a Miriah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Miriah
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 Miriah and names like it
- Compare Miriah and MiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMiriah peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miriah since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Miriah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Miriah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.