# Mariah vs Moria

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Mariah
*name · IPA /məˈɹaɪə/ · frequency rank #22,435*
A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria used since the nineteenth century. Popularized by singer Mariah Carey in the 1990s

### Moria
*name · frequency rank #46,078*
A town in Mytilene, Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece in the Aegean, Mediterranean, off the coast of Anatolia.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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