Mariha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: joyful, cheerful, lively
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məɹihə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mariha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 421K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 703K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
503 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
joyful, cheerful, lively
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mariha 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.
503 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Mariha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Southern Sotho, winter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 503 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 498 | #13,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 383 | #24,850 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 343 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 212 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 189 | #14,627 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 184 | #26,509 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 160 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 131 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 68 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 63 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 32 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mariha mean, and where does it come from?
- joyful, cheerful, lively Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Mariha?
- A machine transcription gives /məɹihə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mariha a male or female name?
- Mariha 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 Mariha have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 503 people named Mariha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mariha.
- Where is Mariha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mariha is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mariha?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 503 people named Mariha in 2022, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mariha?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marihaThe 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, “Mariha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.