Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Moriah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Moriah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Moriah” 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 “Moriah” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Moriah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Moriah” 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
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 100%
1971 13 0.000003787 13 100%
1972 20 0.000006363 20 100%
1973 35 0.000011601 35 100%
1974 51 0.000016776 51 100%
1975 35 0.000011592 35 100%
1976 59 0.000019444 59 100%
1977 81 0.0000255 81 100%
1978 81 0.000025521 81 100%
1979 89 0.000026751 82 7 84%
1980 82 0.000023806 77 5 88%
1981 96 0.000027751 88 8 83%
1982 92 0.000026226 92 100%
1983 83 0.000023965 83 100%
1984 96 0.000027517 89 7 85%
1985 109 0.00003054 109 100%
1986 125 0.000035141 125 100%
1987 136 0.000037719 128 8 88%
1988 169 0.000045737 169 100%
1989 193 0.000050202 187 6 94%
1990 258 0.000065276 252 6 95%
1991 483 0.000123997 477 6 98%
1992 517 0.000134591 517 100%
1993 507 0.000134473 507 100%
1994 499 0.000134224 499 100%
1995 516 0.000140901 516 100%
1996 488 0.000133801 488 100%
1997 504 0.000139006 504 100%
1998 457 0.000124245 457 100%
1999 398 0.000107746 398 100%
2000 358 0.000094711 358 100%
2001 314 0.000083881 314 100%
2002 272 0.000072761 272 100%
2003 305 0.000080214 305 100%
2004 293 0.000076683 293 100%
2005 301 0.000078287 301 100%
2006 297 0.000075072 297 100%
2007 319 0.000079796 319 100%
2008 366 0.000093114 353 13 93%
2009 397 0.000103922 377 20 90%
2010 354 0.000095786 354 100%
2011 331 0.000090492 323 8 95%
2012 309 0.000084487 309 100%
2013 268 0.000073512 268 100%
2014 275 0.000074196 275 100%
2015 278 0.000075117 278 100%
2016 282 0.000076867 282 100%
2017 242 0.00006767 242 100%
2018 209 0.000059444 203 6 94%
2019 224 0.000064536 216 8 93%
2020 193 0.000057774 193 100%
2021 182 0.00005372 182 100%
2022 178 0.000052614 178 100%
2023 245 0.000073991 245 100%
2024 195 0.000058585 195 100%

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