Mariam

What Mariam means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Mariam yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #564 in 2015 to #505 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mariam?

US: Rising: up from #564 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #196 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 623 girls got the name (#491 that year). First in the US records in 1882.

How common

• About 1 in 2,729 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,415 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MI (1.6 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.93 per 1,000 girls), VA (0.8 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Mariam is #505 in the US and #259 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Mariam were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Miriam1,262 US · 197 E&W
• Myriam27 US · 7 E&W
• Mariame22 US
• Marieme9 US
• Mariem9 US
• Meriem0 US · 8 E&W
• Merriam5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mariam

Girls

• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025

For a brother

• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mariam’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.