Entry № 6999 · Hebrew origin

Moriah Moriah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mo-REE-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Yahweh teaches / Mount Moriah (Genesis 22 + Temple Mount)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "yahweh teaches / mount moriah (genesis 22 + temple mount)".

Moriah is from the Hebrew מוֹרִיָּה (Mōrīyāh — Yahweh provides, taught by Yahweh). Moriah is one of the Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Jewish + Christian heritage. Hebrew feminine name reflecting biblical heritage.

Yahweh teaches (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

מוֹרִיָּה
Transliteration
Mōrīyāh
Pronunciation
/ moʊˈriː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Moriah stands.

Moriah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Moriahs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mount Moriah
Site of Akedah Binding of Isaac + Solomon's Temple + Temple Mount Jerusalem.
Genesis 22 + 2 Chronicles 3:1

Names connected to Moriah.

The number behind Moriah.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Moriah reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.