Meryem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Mary or Miriam
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛrjˈæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meryem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 256(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 419
- MAMorocco≈1 in 555
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #711 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 256 (inferred from the name graph)
320,576 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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:
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)
a female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Mary or Miriam
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meryem 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 | #26 | 320,576 | 1 in 256 | 321K | Meryem | 97 |
| MA Morocco | #509 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 555 | — | Meryem | 52 |
| SY Syria | #48 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 419 | — | Meryem | 8 |
| AF Afghanistan | #30 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Meryem | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4.5K | — | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | #27 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 680 | — | Meryem | 21 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). 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)
Meryem is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Peygamber İsa’nın annesi. 2. Dindar kadın.3. İbr. İsyan, ayaklanma.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Meryem är en turkisk form av → Mariam (→ Maria).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Clémentine Célariéb. 1957FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress, singer and writer
- Maryam d'Abob. 1960GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Maryam Namazieb. 1966IRnot in their usual nameIranian activist and broadcaster
- Maryam Nawazb. 1973PKnot in their usual namePakistani politician
- Maryam Mirzakhanib. 1977USnot in their usual nameIranian mathematician (1977–2017)
- Haley Paigeb. 1981MXnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress (1981-2007)
- Meryem Uzerlib. 1983DETurkish-German actor (born 1983)
- Maryam Zareeb. 1983DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
- Maryam Yusuf Jamalb. 1984BHnot in their usual nameBahraini track and field athlete
- Princess Alexandra of Hanoverb. 1999MCnot in their usual nameMonegasque figure skater and princess
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)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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 does the name Meryem mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Mary or Miriam Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Meryem?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛrjˈæm/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Meryem a male or female name?
- Meryem 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.
- What are other forms of the name Meryem?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Meryem have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 321 thousand people named Meryem, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meryem.
- Where is Meryem most common?
- Meryem is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 256 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Meryem?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 320,576 people named Meryem in 2025, about 1 in 256 residents.
- How common is Meryem compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Meryem is the 26th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meryem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meryemThe 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, “Meryem” — the 26th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.