Meryém
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meryém is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Syria it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam), from Hebrew מרים (miryām).
- TRTürkiye1 in 256(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 11K
- SESweden1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 256 (inferred from the name graph)
320,576 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Meryem in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, ES Spain and 3 more.
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)- Arabicمَرْيَمmaryam(measured from records)
- Hebrewמריםmiryām(measured from records)
From Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam), from Hebrew מרים (miryām).
Cited for this meaning 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meryém 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 320,576 | 1 in 256 | 321K | Meryem | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,924 | 1 in 17K | 2.9K | Meryem | 41 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,645 | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Meryem | 20 |
| US United States | — | 1,089 | 1 in 305K | 1.1K | Meryem | 102 |
| SE Sweden | — | 847 | 1 in 12K | 847 | Meryem | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 460 | 1 in 13K | 460 | — | — |
| SY Syria | #40 | — | — | — | Meryem | 8 |
320,576 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meryém mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam), from Hebrew מרים (miryām). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
- Is Meryém a male or female name?
- Meryém is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Meryém?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 321 thousand people named Meryém, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meryem. After it come Spain, Netherlands, United States and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Meryém most common?
- Meryém is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 256 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meryém?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 320,576 people named Meryém in 2025, about 1 in 256 residents.
- How common is Meryém compared with other names?
- In Syria, Meryém is the 40th most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meryém?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mery%C3%A9mThe 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, “Meryém” — the 40th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.