Maariyah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maariyah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maariyah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #498 in 1999, and it stood at #2,000 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#498highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#526
1997	#705
1998	#724
1999	#498
2000	#512
2001	#710
2002	#689
2003	#666
2004	#687
2005	#1012
2006	#796
2007	#987
2008	#1135
2009	#1139
2010	#1332
2011	#1015
2012	#998
2013	#1098
2014	#1299
2015	#1279
2016	#1472
2017	#1330
2018	#1393
2019	#1854
2020	#1449
2021	#2942
2022	#1556
2023	#2504
2024	#2000

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #526 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #498 among girls in England and Wales, in 1999 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2000 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Maariyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maariyah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	172	4 of 10	43
2000sbusiest	360	10 of 10	36
2010s	261	10 of 10	26
2020s	72	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 36 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births rose by 26, from 32 to 58.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Maariyah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #498 in England and Wales in 1999.

Maariyah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2000	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1854	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1393	23	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1330	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1472	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1279	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1299	25	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1098	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#998	36	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1015	34	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1135	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#796	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1012	25	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#687	42	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#666	43	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#689	38	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#710	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#512	56	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#498	58	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#724	32	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#705	34	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#526	48	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #498, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 58 births, registered in England and Wales in 1999.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,000position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
58births registered in its largest year, 199950 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maaria · #816, 24y
Maariya · #717, 29y
Maaya · #2673, 14y
Maaz · #615, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aamina · #499, 29y
Sanaa · #496, 29y
Mohammod · #503, 26y
Roshan · #493, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abagail · #498, 8y
Katlin · #498, 13y
Kaytlyn · #498, 15y
Maryann · #498, 30y

Maariyah was ranked #498 in England and Wales · Girls in 1999. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maariyah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maariyah without appearing here.

Maariyah moved ahead of

Suzanne Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2942 and #2942 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1556 and #3970.
Katrina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2000 and #4192.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2000 and #3695.
Jordan Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2942 and #1866 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1556 and #2888.

Moved ahead of Maariyah

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1449 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #1286.
Elaine Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1449 and #1687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #1454.
Linda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1556 and #1621 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #1206.
Arlo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1556 and #1849 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2504 and #1469.

Moved the opposite way to Maariyah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Maariyah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Maariyah went from #526 to #2000 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #498 in England and Wales in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maariyah

Maariyah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maariyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Maariyah at a glance

Maariyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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