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Myriam

#4,951 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly bitter, through Miriam

Myriam has been given to 3,160 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #4,951 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 115 recorded.

Babies named Myriam, 2025

1 in 123,000

Myriam over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Myriam: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly bitter, through Miriam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Myriam means

Myriam belongs to the name family reached through Myriam → Miriam. Its meaning is “bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Myriam is used in English and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miriam.

Pronunciation and spelling

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,160 girls were recorded with the name Myriam between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 115 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,670 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,618 in 2020 to #4,951 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,961 in 2015 to #4,951 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 Myriam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,951
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Myriam 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Myriam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Myriams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Myriam was born before 1994 — so the typical Myriam is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,982
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2000s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (668).

Is Myriam 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
−217
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−333
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−990
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.5%
Peak was 2003 (115)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,670
2003

Spellings of Myriam

Myriam is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 51.0% against Myriam's 0.28%.

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 Myriam is used

Across 1910–2025, Myriam was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 45,811 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Myriam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Myriam around the world

Where Myriam 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
    1998–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1902–2025
    #287
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #870
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Myriam

People whose public names include Myriam, 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.

Myriam in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Myriam. Linked forms have their own page here.

MariamMaryamMeriemMiriamMirjamMyriemMíriamMirijam

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Myriam by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,951
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 333
Best rank ever
#1,670
2003
Peak year
2003
115 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,160
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Myriam

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

MyrandaMyrtieMyracleMyriahMyrtisMyrahMyrleMyrticeMyricalMariamMyrtaMyrlMeriamWilliamMyrthaMyrtleMyriaMyrkaAriamMyronMyreneMyrianMyrissaMerriam

Names with a curve like Myriam

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

CaterinaLanaeBronwynGiselaPilarShayneAnamariaHaydeeKatharinaKayleneZenaidaBrigid

Sibling names for Myriam

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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