Oriah
Oriah was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,489 among girls’ names; 420 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oriah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oriah?
#6,489 among girls’ names, 2025
Oriah fell from #6,406 in 2015 to #6,489 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 11.2 per million.
32 babies in 2023, the peak
Oriah peaked in 2023, when 32 girls were given it, #4,430 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,489 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,564 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,430 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,431 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,199 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,140 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,945 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,717 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,484 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,287 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,406 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,643 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,471 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,709 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,701 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,428 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,274 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,009 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,001 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,763 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,723 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,923 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,264 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,591 | 6.7 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,188 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oriah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 420 Americans recorded as Oriah, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 18 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oriah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oriah, and how old are they?
An estimated 417 Americans named Oriah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 279 people named Oriah (249 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 46,411 babies since 1880, Oriah is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 108 babies (17%), the third most given that year.
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 Oriah
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 Oriah and names like it
- Compare Oriah and OraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sOriah peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oriah since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Oriah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Oriah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.