Baby name
Mariah
/mah · RY · ah/
Meaning
“Sea of bitterness”
Hebrew-Latin variant of Maria, meaning 'sea of bitterness', 'wished-for child', or 'beloved'.
How it ages.
Has Mariah Carey written all over it, beautiful but carries heavy pop-culture weight.
The cultural moment.
Less common than it was in the 1990s; the Carey association is inescapable in English-speaking markets.