Moriah
Moriah was given to 221 girls in 2025, #1,093 among girls’ names; 13,507 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,300 Americans named Moriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moriah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Moriah is “a female given name.”
Named after the Biblical Moriah.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moriah?
#1,093 among girls’ names, 2025
Moriah fell from #975 in 2015 to #1,093 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.14 per 1,000.
517 babies in 1992, the peak
Moriah peaked in 1992, when 517 girls were given it, #478 among girls’ names. The 221 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 221 | #1,093 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,212 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 246 | #1,035 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,314 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 182 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 193 | #1,197 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 216 | #1,124 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 203 | #1,185 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 242 | #1,062 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 282 | #963 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 278 | #975 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 275 | #970 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 268 | #945 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 309 | #863 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 323 | #822 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 354 | #779 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 378 | #752 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 353 | #814 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 319 | #878 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 297 | #895 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 301 | #843 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 293 | #841 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 305 | #809 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 272 | #849 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 314 | #762 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 358 | #675 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 398 | #610 | 0.22 |
| 1998 | 457 | #545 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 504 | #489 | 0.29 |
| 1996 | 488 | #488 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 516 | #480 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 499 | #497 | 0.28 |
| 1993 | 507 | #493 | 0.28 |
| 1992 | 517 | #478 | 0.28 |
| 1991 | 477 | #499 | 0.25 |
| 1990 | 252 | #797 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 187 | #945 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 169 | #981 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 125 | #1,147 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 109 | #1,254 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 89 | #1,353 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,419 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 92 | #1,352 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,402 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,538 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,466 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,431 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,395 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,669 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,344 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,765 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,255 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,245 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,458 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,179 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,484 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Moriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moriah has been given almost only to girls: 108 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Moriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moriah, and how old are they?
13,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,507 Americans ever recorded as Moriah. The median Moriah alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 11,017 people named Moriah (10,887 women and girls, 130 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 537 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,980 |
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 Moriah born?
The states with the most babies named Moriah are Texas, California and Florida, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #1,052 | 0.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,716 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,301 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 10 | #941 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #989 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 9 | #818 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,115 | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 8 | #712 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #865 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 8 | #797 | 0.8× |
Where Moriah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Moriah is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1968 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Moriah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,681 babies since 1880, Moriah is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 221 of their 265 babies (83%), again the 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 Moriah
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 Moriah and names like it
- Compare Moriah and MoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMoriah peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moriah since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Moriah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Moriah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.