How popular is “Mariah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mariah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mariah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mariah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mariah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mariah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mariah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mariah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	22	0.00010919	22		100%
1881	13	0.000067467	13		100%
1882	22	0.000099308	22		100%
1883	15	0.000069142	15		100%
1884	21	0.000086256	21		100%
1885	26	0.000107949	26		100%
1886	24	0.000094001	24		100%
1887	30	0.000121265	30		100%
1888	19	0.000063445	19		100%
1889	30	0.000103826	30		100%
1890	31	0.000102853	31		100%
1891	21	0.000073254	21		100%
1892	23	0.000068785	23		100%
1893	28	0.000086095	28		100%
1894	32	0.000094482	32		100%
1895	29	0.000082616	29		100%
1896	23	0.000064339	23		100%
1897	26	0.000074937	26		100%
1898	26	0.00006816	26		100%
1899	17	0.000050113	17		100%
1900	29	0.000064408	29		100%
1901	14	0.000040484	14		100%
1902	23	0.000059473	23		100%
1903	22	0.000057712	22		100%
1904	24	0.000059482	24		100%
1905	25	0.000058973	25		100%
1906	24	0.000056016	24		100%
1907	17	0.000036529	17		100%
1908	20	0.000040929	20		100%
1909	15	0.000029341	15		100%
1910	25	0.000042322	25		100%
1911	25	0.000038803	25		100%
1912	25	0.000025302	25		100%
1913	33	0.000029021	33		100%
1914	31	0.000021887	31		100%
1915	23	0.000012552	23		100%
1916	33	0.000017059	33		100%
1917	30	0.00001495	30		100%
1918	43	0.000019806	43		100%
1919	40	0.000018955	40		100%
1920	38	0.000016795	38		100%
1921	32	0.000013707	32		100%
1922	29	0.000012668	29		100%
1923	32	0.000013898	32		100%
1924	29	0.000012177	29		100%
1925	23	0.000009857	23		100%
1926	25	0.000010889	25		100%
1927	22	0.000009485	22		100%
1928	25	0.000011057	25		100%
1929	20	0.000009123	20		100%
1930	22	0.000009895	22		100%
1931	16	0.000007603	16		100%
1932	23	0.000010894	23		100%
1933	10	0.000005001	10		100%
1934	29	0.000013964	29		100%
1935	21	0.000010048	21		100%
1936	14	0.000006739	14		100%
1937	18	0.000008448	18		100%
1938	18	0.000008135	18		100%
1939	16	0.000007261	16		100%
1940	12	0.000005211	12		100%
1941	18	0.000007388	18		100%
1942	11	0.000004027	11		100%
1943	20	0.000007086	20		100%
1944	11	0.000004089	11		100%
1945	8	0.000003016	8		100%
1946	18	0.000005633	18		100%
1947	11	0.000003054	11		100%
1948	17	0.000004924	17		100%
1949	11	0.000003157	11		100%
1950	16	0.000004567	16		100%
1951	14	0.0000038	14		100%
1952	17	0.000004476	17		100%
1953	12	0.000003114	12		100%
1954	16	0.000004019	16		100%
1955	8	0.000001992	8		100%
1956	6	0.000001455	6		100%
1957	8	0.000001904	8		100%
1958	5	0.00000121	5		100%
1959	13	0.000003127	13		100%
1960	11	0.000002648	11		100%
1961	6	0.000001448	6		100%
1962	5	0.000001239	5		100%
1963	12	0.000003032	12		100%
1964	19	0.000004887	19		100%
1965	19	0.000005241	19		100%
1966	14	0.000004028	14		100%
1967	13	0.000003829	13		100%
1968	28	0.000008288	28		100%
1969	27	0.000007769	27		100%
1970	43	0.000011923	43		100%
1971	60	0.000017481	60		100%
1972	61	0.000019408	61		100%
1973	135	0.000044748	135		100%
1974	118	0.000038816	118		100%
1975	156	0.000051666	156		100%
1976	195	0.000064265	190	5	95%
1977	304	0.000095703	299	5	97%
1978	289	0.000091056	289		100%
1979	310	0.000093177	305	5	97%
1980	393	0.000114095	387	6	97%
1981	322	0.00009308	322		100%
1982	361	0.000102909	361		100%
1983	335	0.000096727	335		100%
1984	316	0.000090577	311	5	97%
1985	341	0.000095542	341		100%
1986	272	0.000076467	272		100%
1987	437	0.0001212	437		100%
1988	423	0.000114478	423		100%
1989	399	0.000103786	399		100%
1990	1103	0.000279065	1103		100%
1991	5201	0.001335211	5192	9	100%
1992	4727	0.001230582	4712	15	99%
1993	4101	0.001087718	4093	8	100%
1994	4762	0.001280916	4749	13	99%
1995	4787	0.001307154	4773	14	99%
1996	5454	0.001495396	5446	8	100%
1997	4803	0.001324692	4803		100%
1998	5093	0.001384642	5086	7	100%
1999	4653	0.001259656	4646	7	100%
2000	4113	0.001088123	4104	9	100%
2001	3591	0.000959291	3585	6	100%
2002	2679	0.000716638	2672	7	99%
2003	3079	0.000809769	3073	6	100%
2004	2993	0.000783319	2982	11	99%
2005	3847	0.00100056	3840	7	100%
2006	4075	0.001030032	4075		100%
2007	3707	0.000927287	3707		100%
2008	4050	0.00103036	4040	10	100%
2009	3605	0.000943674	3605		100%
2010	3119	0.000843945	3113	6	100%
2011	3001	0.00082044	2995	6	100%
2012	2904	0.000794014	2904		100%
2013	2772	0.000760355	2772		100%
2014	2417	0.000652119	2409	8	99%
2015	2118	0.000572291	2118		100%
2016	1930	0.000526072	1930		100%
2017	1616	0.000451877	1616		100%
2018	1438	0.000408999	1438		100%
2019	1196	0.000344576	1196		100%
2020	1070	0.000320304	1070		100%
2021	955	0.000281881	955		100%
2022	931	0.000275189	931		100%
2023	780	0.000235564	780		100%
2024	756	0.000227129	756		100%

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