Meaning not yet researched.
Miriam: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,262 in 2025. Its best rank was #134 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #134 in 1917; #246 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Miriam in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#246 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #134.
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Miriam: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,262 girls in 2025. Peak: #134 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 1,834 (1924).
In 2025, 1,262 US girls were named Miriam, making it the 246th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3 places from #249 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 1,279 girls named Miriam in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #134, reached in 1917. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,834, in 1924. For comparison, it was #293 in 2015 and #264 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Miriam in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 28 babies with the name. In all, 118,190 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 15,518 babies named Miriam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,882 US girls were named Miriam; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,279. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,274 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Miriam ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #29 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Mary (4,156,654 babies since 1880), Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Mariam (18,560 babies since 1880) and Maryam (13,845 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meriam, Merriam and Mirriam are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mimi, Mitzi and Mitzie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meriam (1,391), Merriam (351), Mirriam (196), Meriem (126), Meryam (84), Miram (10), Mirium (7), Merium (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 173 | #29 | #66 |
| New York | 284 | #40 | #69 |
| Vermont | 5 | #93 | — |
| Indiana | 41 | #170 | #345 |
| Ohio | 54 | #215 | #287 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #222 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 50 | #225 | #263 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #228 | #438 |
| Missouri | 27 | #232 | #294 |
| Washington | 29 | #251 | #452 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #261 | #347 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #262 | — |
| Connecticut | 13 | #263 | #489 |
| Tennessee | 29 | #272 | #347 |
| Kansas | 12 | #276 | #597 |
| Maryland | 18 | #295 | #353 |
| Illinois | 33 | #330 | #359 |
| Michigan | 27 | #337 | #369 |
| Colorado | 17 | #366 | #436 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #367 | #473 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #369 | #263 |
| Iowa | 9 | #375 | #400 |
| Oregon | 10 | #380 | #178 |
| Utah | 12 | #380 | #360 |
| Virginia | 20 | #409 | #453 |
| Alabama | 12 | #421 | #277 |
| California | 80 | #421 | #368 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #435 | #495 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #436 | #729 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #437 | #556 |
| Texas | 74 | #455 | #479 |
| Arizona | 13 | #538 | #423 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #602 | #729 |
| Georgia | 17 | #638 | #523 |
| Florida | 27 | #644 | #893 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #870 | #752 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,262 | #246 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,279 | #249 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,246 | #249 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,203 | #261 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,193 | #259 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,151 | #268 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,165 | #285 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,109 | #300 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,152 | #284 | 6 | #11,726 |
| 2016 | 1,122 | #290 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,106 | #293 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,075 | #304 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,114 | #286 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,051 | #305 | — | — |
| 2011 | 947 | #332 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,086 | #300 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,079 | #306 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,102 | #301 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,146 | #294 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,160 | #286 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,191 | #280 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,201 | #271 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,118 | #279 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,121 | #279 | 5 | #11,871 |
| 2001 | 1,076 | #292 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,162 | #278 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,047 | #295 | 5 | #11,035 |
| 1998 | 994 | #306 | — | — |
| 1997 | 939 | #311 | 9 | #6,443 |
| 1996 | 1,008 | #287 | 15 | #4,324 |
| 1995 | 979 | #285 | 8 | #6,783 |
| 1994 | 1,028 | #272 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,024 | #268 | 7 | #7,354 |
| 1992 | 1,057 | #263 | 15 | #4,039 |
| 1991 | 1,012 | #273 | 11 | #4,990 |
| 1990 | 983 | #284 | — | — |
| 1989 | 811 | #313 | 16 | #3,560 |
| 1988 | 735 | #335 | 5 | #8,114 |
| 1987 | 758 | #321 | — | — |
| 1986 | 758 | #316 | 7 | #5,733 |
| 1985 | 747 | #321 | 8 | #5,011 |
| 1984 | 787 | #306 | 7 | #5,374 |
| 1983 | 739 | #312 | 7 | #5,287 |
| 1982 | 812 | #301 | 6 | #6,145 |
| 1981 | 801 | #303 | 8 | #4,810 |
| 1980 | 781 | #310 | — | — |
| 1979 | 762 | #314 | — | — |
| 1978 | 612 | #352 | — | — |
| 1977 | 659 | #343 | 5 | #6,510 |
| 1976 | 619 | #345 | 7 | #4,762 |
| 1975 | 671 | #330 | 9 | #3,834 |
| 1974 | 599 | #361 | 8 | #4,069 |
| 1973 | 589 | #362 | — | — |
| 1972 | 574 | #375 | 5 | #5,501 |
| 1971 | 693 | #355 | 8 | #3,850 |
| 1970 | 655 | #370 | — | — |
| 1969 | 616 | #375 | — | — |
| 1968 | 653 | #345 | 6 | #3,989 |
| 1967 | 656 | #350 | — | — |
| 1966 | 666 | #348 | — | — |
| 1965 | 753 | #327 | — | — |
| 1964 | 853 | #320 | — | — |
| 1963 | 896 | #311 | 5 | #4,436 |
| 1962 | 991 | #292 | — | — |
| 1961 | 949 | #299 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,051 | #281 | — | — |
| 1959 | 956 | #293 | — | — |
| 1958 | 996 | #280 | 7 | #3,475 |
| 1957 | 951 | #295 | 7 | #3,458 |
| 1956 | 1,040 | #264 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,026 | #264 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,047 | #255 | — | — |
| 1953 | 906 | #275 | 7 | #3,327 |
| 1952 | 910 | #264 | — | — |
| 1951 | 871 | #263 | 5 | #4,081 |
| 1950 | 841 | #264 | — | — |
| 1949 | 708 | #290 | — | — |
| 1948 | 698 | #289 | — | — |
| 1947 | 756 | #281 | — | — |
| 1946 | 699 | #275 | — | — |
| 1945 | 672 | #260 | — | — |
| 1944 | 710 | #257 | — | — |
| 1943 | 708 | #262 | — | — |
| 1942 | 706 | #260 | — | — |
| 1941 | 715 | #243 | — | — |
| 1940 | 735 | #231 | — | — |
| 1939 | 712 | #231 | — | — |
| 1938 | 768 | #220 | — | — |
| 1937 | 752 | #221 | — | — |
| 1936 | 769 | #213 | — | — |
| 1935 | 792 | #216 | — | — |
| 1934 | 818 | #218 | 6 | #3,553 |
| 1933 | 912 | #186 | — | — |
| 1932 | 904 | #201 | 10 | #2,577 |
| 1931 | 869 | #208 | 7 | #3,300 |
| 1930 | 1,052 | #183 | 5 | #4,370 |
| 1929 | 1,074 | #185 | — | — |
| 1928 | 1,250 | #168 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1,377 | #162 | — | — |
| 1926 | 1,511 | #155 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,599 | #154 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,834 | #143 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1,733 | #145 | 8 | #3,363 |
| 1922 | 1,639 | #151 | — | — |
| 1921 | 1,743 | #147 | 6 | #4,184 |
| 1920 | 1,744 | #140 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,541 | #145 | 8 | #3,295 |
| 1918 | 1,708 | #138 | 6 | #4,016 |
| 1917 | 1,614 | #134 | — | — |
| 1916 | 1,460 | #140 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,377 | #138 | — | — |
| 1914 | 981 | #149 | — | — |
| 1913 | 826 | #146 | — | — |
| 1912 | 686 | #159 | — | — |
| 1911 | 487 | #164 | — | — |
| 1910 | 368 | #186 | — | — |
| 1909 | 339 | #176 | — | — |
| 1908 | 342 | #174 | — | — |
| 1907 | 301 | #183 | — | — |
| 1906 | 273 | #183 | — | — |
| 1905 | 234 | #200 | — | — |
| 1904 | 227 | #199 | — | — |
| 1903 | 218 | #193 | — | — |
| 1902 | 200 | #209 | — | — |
| 1901 | 218 | #189 | — | — |
| 1900 | 214 | #214 | — | — |
| 1899 | 181 | #206 | — | — |
| 1898 | 176 | #219 | — | — |
| 1897 | 188 | #201 | — | — |
| 1896 | 169 | #212 | — | — |
| 1895 | 169 | #206 | — | — |
| 1894 | 152 | #216 | — | — |
| 1893 | 108 | #255 | — | — |
| 1892 | 88 | #286 | — | — |
| 1891 | 83 | #272 | — | — |
| 1890 | 83 | #275 | — | — |
| 1889 | 80 | #265 | — | — |
| 1888 | 64 | #295 | — | — |
| 1887 | 46 | #315 | — | — |
| 1886 | 56 | #279 | — | — |
| 1885 | 42 | #316 | — | — |
| 1884 | 45 | #289 | — | — |
| 1883 | 34 | #304 | — | — |
| 1882 | 40 | #283 | — | — |
| 1881 | 27 | #307 | — | — |
| 1880 | 28 | #303 | — | — |
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).