Maryam

What Maryam means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maryam?

US: Rising: up from #569 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #75 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 869 girls got the name (#351 that year). First in the US records in 1946.

How common

• About 1 in 1,850 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 307 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 746 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 NY (1.77 per 1,000 girls), MI (1.37 per 1,000 girls), IL (1.35 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Maryam is #351 in the US and #52 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 Maryam were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mariyam23 US · 25 E&W
• Meryem28 US · 12 E&W
• Miryam13 US · 9 E&W
• Maryum5 US · 4 E&W
• Maryem0 US · 5 E&W
• Maryaam0 US · 4 E&W

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 Maryam

Girls

• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Alia#587Feminine form of Ali, meaning “high, exalted”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*

For a brother

• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Yusuf#449Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Musa#469Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maryam’s. Rank is US 2025.