Merjem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: first-person singular subjunctive present definite of mer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɐʒəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merjem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 23K
- SESweden1 in 76K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Merjem 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.
- North Macedonia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
723 named Мерјем
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
first-person singular subjunctive present definite of mer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merjem 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MK North Macedonia | — | 723as Мерјем | 1 in 2.9K | 723 | Merjem | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 199 | 1 in 11K | 239 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 135 | 1 in 76K | 135 | Merjem | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 133 | 1 in 23K | 133 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 29 | 1 in 596K | 29 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 23 | 1 in 242K | 31 | — | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #816 | — | — | 299 | Merjem | 13 |
723 people counted by State Statistical Office — living population names, counting the spelling мерјем. 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: State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
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)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2025 | 299 | #1 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 239 | #914 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 199 | #498 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 181 | #511 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 148 | #569 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 135 | #6,979 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 133 | #2,381 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 116 | #637 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 105 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 100 | #692 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 78 | #777 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 62 | #865 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 does the name Merjem mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular subjunctive present definite of mer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Merjem?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Merjem?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐʒəm/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Merjem have the most bearers?
- In North Macedonia, the national register counted about 723 people named Мерјем, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Merjem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Merjem is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though North Macedonia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Merjem a male or female name?
- Merjem 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.
- How common is the name Merjem?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 199 people named Merjem in 2025, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Merjem compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Merjem is the 816th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Merjem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merjemThe 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, “Merjem” — the 816th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.