Miriam — #250 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Miriam

The Social Security Administration has registered 116,620 babies named Miriam between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Miriam currently holds the #250 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 1,834 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Miriam performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 15,504 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Miriam shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 24,608 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Miriam in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Miriam in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 116,620 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.