Meaning not yet researched.
Moriah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 221 in 2025. Its best rank was #478 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #478 in 1992; #1,093 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Moriah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,093 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #478.
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Moriah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 221 girls in 2025. Peak: #478 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 517 (1992).
In 2025, 221 US girls were named Moriah, making it the 1,093rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 119 places from #1,212 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 196 girls named Moriah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #478, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 517. For comparison, it was #975 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Moriah in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 8 babies. In all, 13,507 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,627 babies named Moriah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,161 US girls were named Moriah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 282. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Moriah ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #617 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Moria, Moriyah and Mori 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Moria (557), Moriyah (378), Mori (129), Moriya (115), Muriah (103), Morio (100), Morea (50), Morriah (41), Moryah (16).
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 Moriah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 8 | #617 | #920 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #636 | #613 |
| Kansas | 5 | #661 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #710 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #712 | #816 |
| Arizona | 8 | #797 | #1,210 |
| Virginia | 9 | #818 | #916 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #865 | #819 |
| Washington | 7 | #879 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #941 | #1,038 |
| Maryland | 5 | #956 | #616 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #969 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #989 | #814 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,005 | #1,139 |
| Texas | 27 | #1,052 | #955 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,115 | #535 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,153 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,301 | #761 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,354 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,357 | #1,088 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,495 | #583 |
| California | 13 | #1,716 | #1,234 |
| New York | 6 | #1,995 | #1,262 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 221 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2023 | 246 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 2021 | 182 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2020 | 193 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 2019 | 216 | #1,124 | 8 | #9,461 |
| 2018 | 203 | #1,185 | 6 | #11,698 |
| 2017 | 242 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2016 | 282 | #963 | — | — |
| 2015 | 278 | #975 | — | — |
| 2014 | 275 | #970 | — | — |
| 2013 | 268 | #945 | — | — |
| 2012 | 309 | #863 | — | — |
| 2011 | 323 | #822 | 8 | #9,336 |
| 2010 | 354 | #779 | — | — |
| 2009 | 378 | #752 | 20 | #4,869 |
| 2008 | 353 | #814 | 13 | #6,654 |
| 2007 | 319 | #878 | — | — |
| 2006 | 297 | #895 | — | — |
| 2005 | 301 | #843 | — | — |
| 2004 | 293 | #841 | — | — |
| 2003 | 305 | #809 | — | — |
| 2002 | 272 | #849 | — | — |
| 2001 | 314 | #762 | — | — |
| 2000 | 358 | #675 | — | — |
| 1999 | 398 | #610 | — | — |
| 1998 | 457 | #545 | — | — |
| 1997 | 504 | #489 | — | — |
| 1996 | 488 | #488 | — | — |
| 1995 | 516 | #480 | — | — |
| 1994 | 499 | #497 | — | — |
| 1993 | 507 | #493 | — | — |
| 1992 | 517 | #478 | — | — |
| 1991 | 477 | #499 | 6 | #7,928 |
| 1990 | 252 | #798 | 6 | #7,788 |
| 1989 | 187 | #948 | 6 | #7,613 |
| 1988 | 169 | #981 | — | — |
| 1987 | 128 | #1,154 | 8 | #5,294 |
| 1986 | 125 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1985 | 109 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1984 | 89 | #1,353 | 7 | #5,381 |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1982 | 92 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,402 | 8 | #4,813 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,538 | 5 | #6,943 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,466 | 7 | #5,184 |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,245 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,460 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,180 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,485 | — | — |
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).