first name
MARIAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 90,630 people named Mariah, 40.1% reported their origin as White, 25.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 23.2% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Mariah peaked in 1996, when 5,454 babies got the name.
At least 115,279 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Mariah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #166. The largest share of babies named Mariah, 51.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Mariah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mariah has been most common in New Mexico (3.3×), Nevada (2.5×), and Alaska (2.3×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.5×).
112,066 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mariah, most common first.
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