Mariah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hebrew; bitter; wanted child; also the star of the sea
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məɹaɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mariah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.4K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 479 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
90,630 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hebrew; bitter; wanted child; also the star of the sea
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mariah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 90,630 | 1 in 3.7K | 90K | Mariah | 479 |
| BR Brazil | — | 24,382 | 1 in 8.7K | 24K | — | 6 |
| CN China | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Mariah | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Mariah | 28 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Mariah | 39 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 3 | Mariah | 149 |
| GY Guyana | #297 | 126 | 1 in 6K | 126 | Mariah | 7 |
90,630 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mariah is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
2 Elaborated spelling of ) Maria, influenced by the many girls’ names of Hebrew origin ending in -a plus an optional final h.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria used since the nineteenth century. Popularized by singer Mariah Carey in the 1990s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, [ms'rais]: weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mariah Stewartb. 1950USAmerican writer
- Mariah O'Brienb. 1971USAmerican actress, model and interior designer
- Mariah Galeb. 1980GBBritish actress
- Mariah Buzolinb. 1991BRBrazilian actress
- Mariah Rose Faith Casillasb. 1995USAmerican actress
- Mariah Bellb. 1996USAmerican figure skater
- Mariah the Scientistb. 1997USAmerican singer (born 1997)
- Blake Monroeb. 1998GBnot in their usual nameBritish professional wrestler (born 1998)
- Mariah Angeliqb. 1999USAmerican singer
- Mariah FredericksUSAmerican writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90K | #587 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 24K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24K | #933 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 8.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.2K | #3,745 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 693 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 206 | #587 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 142 | #933 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 126 | #468 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Mariah?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Mariah mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew; bitter; wanted child; also the star of the sea Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Mariah?
- A machine transcription gives /məɹaɪə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mariah a male or female name?
- Mariah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mariah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 91 thousand people named Mariah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariah.
- Where is Mariah most common?
- Mariah is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mariah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 90,630 people named Mariah in 2020, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Mariah compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Mariah is the 297th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mariahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mariah” — the 297th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.