Maryam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mother of Prophet ‘Isa (Jesus), the Biblical Mary
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 53 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/maɾjam/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Maryam is a female 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.
- 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 Maryam 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)mother of Prophet ‘Isa (Jesus), the Biblical Mary. Bie aly, Gg i, ue) Pte) Ded g Le ISaSL iit alg owellet! clus "And when the angels said: O Maryam! Behold, Allah has chosen you and made you pure and raised you above all the women of the world." (surat Aal ‘Imraan 3:42)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Maryam, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maryam 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Maryam is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Qur'anic sura title; Mary, mother of Jesus.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Biblical. See Miriam and Mary in main dictionary. Mas‘tid ¢ ‘Lucky’. Maysa Perhaps from mayyas ‘to walk with a graceful, proud gait’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Arabic, Mary; mother of ‘Īsā in the Qur’an.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Mary.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Mother of Jesus
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maria Anna of Spainb. 1606ESWife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1606-1646)
- Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicilyb. 1772ITlast Holy Roman Empress and first Empress of Austria
- Maria Montessorib. 1870ITItalian physician and educator (1870-1952)
- Corazon Aquinob. 1933PHnot in their usual namePresident of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992
- Sonia Sotomayorb. 1954USnot in their usual nameUS Supreme Court justice since 2009
- Halle Berryb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1966)
- Steffi Grafb. 1969DEnot in their usual nameGerman tennis player
- Shannen Dohertyb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1971–2024)
- Maryam Mirzakhanib. 1977USIranian mathematician (1977–2017)
- Cobie Smuldersb. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (born 1982)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)103 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 53 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19K | #1,642 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 869 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 85 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 85 | #46,211 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 34 | #1,642 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 26 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Maryam?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Maryam a male or female name?
- Maryam is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Norway (SSB) and Spain (INE), among others.
- What does the name Maryam mean, and where does it come from?
- mother of Prophet ‘Isa (Jesus), the Biblical Mary. Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Maryam?
- In Swahili /maɾjam/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Maryam 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 Maryam?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,284,478 people named Maria in 2022, about 1 in 17 residents.
- How common is Maryam compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Maryam is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maryam?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maryamThe 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, “Maryam” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.