Maryām
given name · Latin script
Maryām is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam). Doublet of Mariam, Meriam, and Maria.
- MXMexico≈1 in 13as Maria(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 15as Maria
- ECEcuador1 in 16as Maria
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maryām itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #1 (measured from records)
- 11 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 679 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13 (inferred from the name graph)
12,284,478 named Maria, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est., as Maria
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, MX Mexico, AR Argentina and 2 more, Mary in US United States and Мария in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam). Doublet of Mariam, Meriam, and Maria.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A Handbook of African Names
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maryām counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #1 | 12,284,478as Maria | 1 in 17 | 12M | Maria | 306 |
| MX Mexico | #1 | ≈9,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 13 | 1.7K | Maria | 303 |
| AR Argentina | #1 | ≈2,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 19 | 5.3K | Maria | 253 |
| RU Russia | #19 | ≈2,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | register #4 | Мария | 263 |
| US United States | #1 | 1,768,343as Mary | 1 in 188 | 1.8M | Mary | 679 |
| EC Ecuador | #1 | 1,042,139as Maria | 1 in 16 | 1M | Maria | 165 |
| SV El Salvador | #2 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 15 | 627 | Maria | 110 |
12,284,478 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe i. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Menelik IIb. 1844ETnot in their usual nameEmperor of Ethiopia and King of Shewa (1844-1913)
- Maryam Monsefb. 1985CACanadian politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maryām mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam). Doublet of Mariam, Meriam, and Maria. Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and A concise dictionary of first names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Maryām have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Maria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Maryām?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,284,478 people named Maria in 2022, about 1 in 17 residents.
- How common is Maryām compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Maryām is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mary%C4%81mThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maryām” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.