Meaning not yet researched.
Marah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,448 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,448 in 1991; #6,728 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,728 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,448.
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Marah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,448 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 117 (2004).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Marah, making it the 6,728th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,858 places from #3,870 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 39 girls named Marah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,448, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 117, in 2004. For comparison, it was #4,274 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marah in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 2,365 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 770 babies named Marah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 273 US girls were named Marah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mayra (33,561 babies since 1880), Mara (24,054 babies since 1880), Maura (19,970 babies since 1880) and Maira (6,358 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marayah and Maraiah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marayah (373), Maraiah (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,728 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,870 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,420 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,574 | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,779 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,253 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,956 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,279 | — | — |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,974 | — | — |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,076 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,947 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,063 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,535 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,159 | — | — |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 2002 | 87 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 2000 | 77 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,554 | — | — |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1997 | 86 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1996 | 63 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1990 | 107 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1989 | 78 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,298 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,352 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,899 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,162 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,052 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,759 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,880 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,989 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,788 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,248 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,357 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,421 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,979 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,078 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,127 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,167 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,497 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,387 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).