Morelia vs Moriah
American parents have registered 13,507 Moriahs since 1880, against 756 Morelias. Moriah is still ahead, with 221 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Morelia Moriah
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Moriah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2004, when Morelia had 58 and Moriah had 293.
Side by side
| Morelia | Moriah | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 756 | 13,507 |
| Most in one year | 66 | 517 |
| Babies in 2025 | 5 | 221 |
| Estimated living today | 750 | 13,000 |
| Median age today | 21 | 24 |
| Peak year | 1996 | 1992 |
| Best rank | 2,084th girls | 477th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 14,942nd | 1,092nd |
| First recorded | 1995 | 1968 |
| Girls / boys | 756 / 0 | 13,399 / 108 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Moriahs alive today are over 24; half the Morelias are over 21. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Morelia California (6.7×), Texas (2.8×), Illinois (1.9×)
- Moriah Colorado (2.1×), Florida (1.7×), Arizona (1.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Morelia and Moriah.