Moraima — girls' name
287 babies named Moraima in U.S. Social Security records since 1963, with the highest year being 1982. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Moraima was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Moraima in 1982 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Moraima
The Social Security Administration has registered 287 babies named Moraima between 1963 and 2015, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Moraima currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Moraima performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Moraima shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Moraima in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Moraima 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 287 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.
Moraima at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Moraima popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1963
- Peak year (1982)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
287 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1982 with 15 births in a single year.
Moraima by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 85 births that decade — 30% of Moraima's all-time total
Moraima decade highlights
- Peak decade 85 births
- Runner-up 69 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Moraima's strongest decade
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Moraima by state
Where Moraima concentrates geographically — total births since 1963
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 11 | 3.8% |
| #2 | New York | | 10 | 3.5% |
| #3 | California | | 5 | 1.7% |
11 of 287 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.8% of nationwide
- New York 3.5% of nationwide
- California 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.8% 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, 1963–2015 (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.