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Marayah

Gender
Girl
Say it
mah-RAY-ah
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Marayah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Marayah mean?

Modern: spelling of Maraya; probably a blend of Mara and Maya, or a variant of Mariah

Spelled the same way, the Arabic word maraya means mirrors.

Meaning borrowed from Maraya.

Is Marayah a girl's or a boy's name?

Marayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Marayah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Marayah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 29 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

2025 had fewer girls named Marayah than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Marayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 29 in 20082025
Marayah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20246#13,472
202312#8,481
20228#11,225
202110#9,557
202013#7,964
201913#8,134
20180–
201711#9,337
201614#7,985
20159#10,861
201410#10,124
201315#7,744
201218#6,868
201117#7,115
201024#5,600
200922#6,088
200829#5,011
200722#6,089
200626#5,232
200520#5,994
200410#9,887
200311#9,043
20026#13,589
20019#10,095
20008#10,738
19990–
19988#10,116
19976#12,065
19960–
19956#11,778
19940–
19935#13,435

Names like Marayah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Marayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/marayah, updated 20 October 2026.