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Mariama

#2,375 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Maryam

Mariama has been given to 2,177 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #2,375 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Mariama, 2025

1 in 43,600

Mariama over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariama: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Maryam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariama means

Mariama is a form of Maryam.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maryam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,177 girls were recorded with the name Mariama between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,314 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,703 in 2020 to #2,375 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,289 in 2015 to #2,375 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Mariama?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,375
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariama sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariamas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariama was born before 2008 — so the typical Mariama is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,177
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (634).

Is Mariama rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+328
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+914
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.52×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.7%
Peak was 2024 (77)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,314
2001

Spellings of Mariama

Mariama is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 39.0% against Mariama's 0.15%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mariama is used

Across 2016–2025, Mariama was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 10,462 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 11,111
  3. 3Georgia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Maryland1 in 20,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 20,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 20,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Mariama around the world

Where Mariama ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • France
    1952–2025
    #267
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mariama

People whose public names include Mariama, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mariama by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,375
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 328
Best rank ever
#2,314
2001
Peak year
2024
77 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,177
Count in 2025
76

Names similar to Mariama

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MaryamaMartineMarlanaMarysolMarlenyMarylynMaryleeMarielyMarlinaMargauxMarleenMarylinMarylynnMaryahMarykateMariskaMarkaylaMarloweMariluMaryroseMarlynnMarbellaMarlowMaryanna

Names with a curve like Mariama

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mariama, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

HibaAminataAleyaChesneyDaylaAnayeliViktoriaNourKylerJoseyKarsonMarbella

Sibling names for Mariama

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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