Maryam
Maryam was given to 869 girls in 2025, #351 among girls’ names; 13,845 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,700 Americans named Maryam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maryam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maryam mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maryam is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam) and Persian مریم (maryam). Doublet of Mary, Maria, and Miriam.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maryam?
#351 among girls’ names, 2025
Maryam rose from #571 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.30 to 0.54 per 1,000.
869 babies in 2025, the peak
Maryam peaked in 2025, when 869 girls were given it, #351 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 807 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 869 | #351 | 0.54 |
| 2024 | 807 | #391 | 0.50 |
| 2023 | 741 | #415 | 0.46 |
| 2022 | 722 | #435 | 0.44 |
| 2021 | 565 | #541 | 0.34 |
| 2020 | 600 | #507 | 0.37 |
| 2019 | 592 | #523 | 0.35 |
| 2018 | 550 | #564 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 647 | #482 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 562 | #556 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 542 | #571 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 494 | #598 | 0.28 |
| 2013 | 428 | #668 | 0.24 |
| 2012 | 415 | #680 | 0.24 |
| 2011 | 353 | #770 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 349 | #790 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 281 | #950 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 262 | #1,010 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 294 | #922 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 273 | #957 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 229 | #1,045 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 255 | #945 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 197 | #1,120 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 223 | #989 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 206 | #1,041 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 235 | #922 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 161 | #1,196 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 161 | #1,169 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 151 | #1,200 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,493 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 122 | #1,349 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,479 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 112 | #1,440 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,590 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 92 | #1,632 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,816 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,757 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,781 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,742 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,852 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,989 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,855 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,384 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,841 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,074 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,822 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,009 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,180 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,197 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,654 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,807 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,739 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,659 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,241 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,812 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,094 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,672 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,394 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,437 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,824 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,869 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maryam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maryam has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maryam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maryam, and how old are they?
13,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,845 Americans ever recorded as Maryam. The median Maryam alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 19,209 people named Maryam (19,175 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,589 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,070 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maryam born?
The states with the most babies named Maryam are New York, California and Texas, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 139 | #109 | 2.2× |
| California | 93 | #354 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 82 | #413 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 60 | #167 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | #191 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 49 | #178 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 35 | #232 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 35 | #321 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 29 | #292 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 24 | #705 | 0.7× |
Where Maryam is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maryam is most over-represented in New York: since 1946 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maryam with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,677 babies since 1880, Maryam is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 869 of their 1,515 babies (57%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maryam
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maryam and names like it
- Compare Maryam and MariamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMaryam peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maryam since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Maryam: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Maryam.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maryam alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.