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How popular is the name Maryam?

Births per year, rank history and how many Maryams are alive today.

Maryam (female) is currently the 52nd most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 825 babies given the name in 2025. It was almost as popular in 2015, with 754 babies given the name that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 15,000 babies have been named Maryam in England and Wales since 1996. Maryam is one spelling of a name also recorded as Meryem; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Maryam you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Maryams born in England and Wales are between 7 and 20, and there are at least 17,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 5.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Maryam.

How many babies are named Maryam each year?

Includes all spellings: Maryam, Meryem. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Maryam spelling rank?

Where does the Meryem spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.