Oriah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Uriah, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Oriah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,433 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,433 in 2023; #6,490 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oriah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,490 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #4,433.
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Oriah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #4,433 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 32 (2023).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Oriah, making it the 6,490th most common girls’ name of the year, down 923 places from #5,567 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 23 girls named Oriah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,433, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #6,408 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oriah in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 5 babies. In all, 420 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 176 babies named Oriah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 209 US girls were named Oriah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Uriah (12,992 babies since 1880), Orie (2,156 babies since 1880) and Ori (1,966 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Oriah 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 | 18 | #6,490 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,567 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,433 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,203 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,144 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,949 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,721 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,486 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,290 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,408 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,645 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,476 | 5 | #13,545 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,713 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,705 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,431 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,278 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,013 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,005 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,765 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,729 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,928 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,270 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,598 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,197 | — | — |
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).