Mariam
About 18,560 American babies have been named Mariam since 1882, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 505th. About 17,000 Mariams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mariam boys named Mariam
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,560
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 491st
- Rank in 2025
- 505th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 18,555 / 5
How old the living Mariams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,560 babies given the name since 1882, about 17,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 9,200 of them are children and 460 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mariams
- Mariam-uz-Zamani Sahi Begum (1542–1623)Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire Empress mother of the Mughal Empire Wife Akbar(c.1542-1623)
- Mariam Aslamazian (1907–2006)Soviet Armenian artist
- Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé (1948–2021)Prime Minister of Mali
- Mariam Shengelia (born 2002)Georgian singer
- Mariam Baouardy (1846–1878)Melkite Carmelite nun and saint
- Mariam Thresia Chiramel (1876–1926)20th‑century Indian Syro‑Malabar nun and foundress, Catholic saint, known for stigmata and family apostolate
- Mariam Chabi Talata (born 1963)Vice President of Benin
- Mariam Ghani (born 1978)American artist
People named Mariam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mariam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mariam is most concentrated in Michigan (2.4×), New York (2.2×), New Jersey (2.0×), Virginia (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Mariam peaked:
Mariam elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Mariam | 11,985 | 86th |
| England and Wales girls | Mariam | 6,572 | 172nd |
| Italy girls | Mariam | 3,286 | — |
| Belgium girls | Mariam | 1,441 | 135th |
| Norway girls | Mariam | 1,048 | 165th |
| Ireland girls | Mariam | 279 | 174th |
| Scotland girls | Mariam | 272 | 274th |
| Switzerland girls | Mariam | 240 | 480th |
| Poland girls | Mariam | 219 birth registrations | 263rd |
| France boys | Mariam | 5 | 835th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mariam: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Mariam | 128 | 0.010% | 537th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mariam | 107 | 0.025% | 223rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mariam | 5 | 0.008% | 170th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mariam is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 43 of them.
Mariam: rank by region
In 2025, Mariam was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mariam | 158 | 35 |
| Wallonia | Mariam | 300 | 9 |
| Brussels | Mariam | 159 | 7 |
In 2023, Mariam was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 4 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Mariam | 1 | 11 |
In 2023, Mariam was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Mariam | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Mariam was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Mariam | 244 | 4 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mariam appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (108th), Province of East Flanders (140th) and Brussels-Capital Region (159th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mariam by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 250 | 67th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mariam among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Mariam | 446 | 639 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mariam lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 10,065 women called Mariam were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Mariam | 458 | 11.057 | 5 |
| Melilla | Mariam | 145 | 3.349 | 57 |
| Girona | Mariam | 481 | 1.162 | 141 |
| Almería | Mariam | 336 | 0.891 | 166 |
| Lleida | Mariam | 180 | 0.808 | 185 |
| Tarragona | Mariam | 350 | 0.801 | 199 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mariam against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.