Meaning not yet researched.
Mariama: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 76 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,318 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,318 in 2001; #2,375 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mariama in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,375 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #2,318.
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Mariama: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 76 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,318 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 77 (2024).
In 2025, 76 US girls were named Mariama, making it the 2,375th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3 places from #2,378 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 77 girls named Mariama in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,318, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 77, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,289 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mariama in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 8 babies. In all, 2,177 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 634 babies named Mariama.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 626 US girls were named Mariama; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,148 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mariama ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #527 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mariana (45,972 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maryama are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maryama (603).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mariama in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 32 | #527 | #804 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #802 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,102 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,536 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,707 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,069 | — | — |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,577 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,067 | — | — |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,802 | — | — |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 2003 | 70 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,716 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,453 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,127 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,342 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,762 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,744 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,751 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,962 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,140 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,149 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,211 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,819 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,383 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,367 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,068 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,373 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).