In 2025, 589 US girls were named Mariam, making it the 505th most common girls’ name of the year, down 14 places from #491 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 623 girls named Mariam in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #491, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 623. For comparison, it was #564 in 2015 and #1,891 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mariam in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 18,560 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,125 babies named Mariam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,450 US girls were named Mariam; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 623. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,729 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mariam ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #147 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Miriam (118,190 babies since 1880), Maryam (13,845 babies since 1880) and Myriam (3,160 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maram, Marium and Mariame are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.