Miriama

Girls' name

English equivalent of Miriam

Miriama has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Miriama, 2006

1 in 791,000

Miriama over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miriama: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Miriam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miriama means

Miriama is a English equivalent of Miriam.

Origin, language, and formation

Miriama is used in Māori and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miriam.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Miriama is pronounced /miriama/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Miriama between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #19,112 in 2006.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Miriama?

Miriama had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 791,000; 5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,442 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Miriama 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 2006 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miriama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miriamas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miriama was born before 2006 — so the typical Miriama is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Miriama 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (5)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #19,112; 2006

Spellings of Miriama

Miriama is not the most common spelling — Miriam is, with 59.2% against Miriama's <0.01%.

Miriam59.2%117,910
Mariana23.1%45,887
Mariam9.3%18,555
Mirian1.7%3,391
Myriam1.6%3,160
Mariama1.1%2,177
Miriah0.92%1,836
Meriam0.70%1,391

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.

Miriama around the world

Where Miriama 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.

South Australia
1996–2000
#727
in 2000

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Miriama by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #19,112; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 5 that year
First recorded: 2006
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Miriama

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

Mirelly Mireina Mirlene Mirriah Miracal Mirelith Mirakal Mirycal Miralee Mireli Mireyda Mirasol Miriella Mirleth Miraha Mirlinda Miruna Mirandy Mireida Mirtis Miryea Miricale Mirium Mirical

Sibling names for Miriama

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

For a sister

Taniya Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany Sanaa

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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