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Miryam

#8,191 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Miriam

Miryam has been given to 904 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #8,191 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Miryam, 2025

1 in 255,000

Miryam over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miryam: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Miriam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miryam means

Miryam is a form of Miriam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Miryam → Miriam. The family’s proposed meaning is “bitter”, recorded in English with the source elements Maryām.

Origin, language, and formation

Miryam is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miriam.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Miryam is pronounced /mi.ʁjam/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 904 girls were recorded with the name Miryam between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,579 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,271 in 2020 to #8,191 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,640 in 2015 to #8,191 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Miryam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,191
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miryam 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miryam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miryams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miryam was born before 2002 — so the typical Miryam is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
904
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (244).

Is Miryam 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
−2,107
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+80
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,551
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.9%
Peak was 1994 (31)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,579
1994

Spellings of Miryam

Miryam is not the most common spelling — Miriam is, with 54.8% against Miryam's 0.42%.

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 Miryam is used

Across 1910–2025, Miryam was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 194,286 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Miryam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miryam around the world

Where Miryam 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
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2023
    #727
    in 2023
  • France
    1938–2025
    #2,011
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1952–1977
    #637
    in 1977

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

Miryam by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,191
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 80
Best rank ever
#3,579
1994
Peak year
1994
31 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
904
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Miryam

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

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Sibling names for Miryam

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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