Marah
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 110 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,365since 1964
Marah over time
Rank among girls' names. Marah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 |
| 2018 | #4,889 | 27 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 |
| 2015 | #4,232 | 34 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #3,496 | 45 |
| 2010 | #3,409 | 47 |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 |
| 2008 | #2,802 | 64 |
| 2007 | #2,787 | 65 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 |
| 2005 | #2,482 | 70 |
| 2004 | #1,654 | 117 |
| 2003 | #1,915 | 95 |
| 2002 | #2,004 | 87 |
| 2001 | #1,922 | 90 |
| 2000 | #2,103 | 77 |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 |
| 1998 | #1,867 | 82 |
| 1997 | #1,757 | 86 |
| 1996 | #2,151 | 63 |
| 1995 | #2,028 | 67 |
| 1994 | #2,541 | 49 |
| 1993 | #2,322 | 55 |
| 1992 | #1,928 | 72 |
| 1991 | #1,443 | 110 |
| 1990 | #1,456 | 107 |
| 1989 | #1,733 | 78 |
| 1988 | #2,093 | 55 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marah! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Marah
- 2,724 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #6,546)
- 879 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #6,546)
- 2,314 spots since 2015 (#4,232 → #6,546)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1991 at #1,443 (110 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,694 girls born in 2004 were named Marah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,443 in 1991, was only 1 in 17,046 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.6% of all girls named Marah (770) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #6,042 (1967) | #6,760 |
| 1970s | 88 | #4,931 (1978) | #6,258 |
| 1980s | 258 | #1,733 (1989) | #4,430 |
| 1990s | 747 | #1,443 (1991) | #2,002 |
| 2000s | 770 | #1,654 (2004) | #2,441 |
| 2010s | 328 | #3,409 (2010) | #4,510 |
| 2020s | 158 | #3,822 (2024) | #5,138 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Marah in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 23,585 of them was named Marah, which outranked 88.1% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,089Pooja78
- #2,089Ramona78
- #2,089Trinidy78
- #2,103Marah77
- #2,103Aditi77
- #2,103Alaya77
- #2,103Arriana77
- #2,122Ajah76
- #2,122Alanah76
- #2,122Becca76
Tied with 18 names at #2,103; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.