Meriem
Meriem was last recorded in 2019, when 9 babies were given it; 126 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meriem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meriem?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,080, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 2012, the peak
Meriem peaked in 2012, when 11 girls were given it, #10,190 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9 | #11,080 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,505 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,542 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,079 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,017 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,190 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,919 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,459 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,321 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,528 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #19,078 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,889 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,433 | 4.4 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,555 | 7.1 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,305 | 5.7 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,430 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meriem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meriem has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meriem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meriem, and how old are they?
An estimated 105 Americans named Meriem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 12 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 690 people named Meriem (690 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 107 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.4 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Meriem?
Meriem is a less common spelling of Meryem: SSA has recorded 126 Meriem and 624 Meryem since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,576 babies since 1880, Meriem is the fourth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Meriem (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Meriem
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 Meriem and names like it
- Compare Meriem and MeryemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMeriem peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Meriem.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Meriem alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.