Girl
Mariah
As a girl's name, Mariah traces back to Hebrew, where it is understood to mean "Hebrew, possibly bitter or beloved". It peaked back in the 1990s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Its single strongest year on record was 1996.
EtymologyVariant of Mary
HebrewHebrew, possibly "bitter" or "beloved"
Births by decade
1900s
213
1910s
308
1920s
275
1930s
187
1940s
137
1950s
115
1960s
155
1970s
1,672
1980s
3,600
1990s
44,679
2000s
35,710
2010s
19,783
Peaked in the 1990s · 106,834 total U.S. births since 1900