Myriam
Myriam was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,951 among girls’ names; 3,160 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,880 Americans named Myriam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Myriam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Myriam mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Myriam is “a female given name, variant of Miriam.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Myriam?
#4,951 among girls’ names, 2025
Myriam fell from #3,961 in 2015 to #4,951 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 16.8 per million.
115 babies in 2003, the peak
Myriam peaked in 2003, when 115 girls were given it, #1,670 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,951 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,734 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,163 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,937 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,854 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,618 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,131 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,327 | 28.2 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,351 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,496 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,961 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,333 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,893 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,894 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,296 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,568 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,340 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,408 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,954 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,876 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,812 | 31.9 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,359 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 115 | #1,670 | 62.9 |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,070 | 46.2 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,618 | 32.2 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,558 | 32.5 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,192 | 38.9 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,829 | 26.6 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,320 | 33.3 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,440 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,297 | 33.0 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,366 | 30.8 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,184 | 33.7 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,415 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,470 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,829 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,448 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,131 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,602 | 22.4 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,423 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,684 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,829 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 36 | #2,537 | 21.5 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,608 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,551 | 22.2 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,730 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,835 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,660 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,887 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 34 | #2,421 | 23.2 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,012 | 30.2 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,660 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,156 | 25.4 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,298 | 21.7 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,992 | 25.8 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,190 | 21.2 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,162 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,899 | 24.4 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,361 | 16.4 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,972 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,790 | 23.2 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,392 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,046 | 17.6 |
| 1962 | 34 | #2,011 | 17.3 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,587 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,043 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,496 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,433 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,253 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,363 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,804 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,351 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,770 | 17.0 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,886 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,367 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,998 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,549 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,504 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,811 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,404 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,160 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,474 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,116 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,797 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,700 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,676 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,783 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,563 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,938 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,377 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,675 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,929 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,899 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,870 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,851 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,322 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,438 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,344 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,760 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,610 | 7.4 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,546 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,872 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Myriam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Myriam has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Myriam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Myriam, and how old are they?
2,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 3,160 Americans ever recorded as Myriam. The median Myriam alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 9,764 people named Myriam (9,741 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 301 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 518 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 636 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 953 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 453 |
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 Myriam born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,192 | 1.7× |
Where Myriam is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Myriam is most over-represented in New York: since 1912 it was given 2.1 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 Myriam 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 122,450 babies since 1880, Myriam is the second most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 1,302 babies (2.1%), again the second most given.
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 Myriam
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 Myriam and names like it
- Compare Myriam and MiriamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMyriam peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Myriam since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Myriam.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Myriam alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.