Miryam

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/miɾʝam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Miryam 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.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 16as Maria(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 16as Maria
  • BRBrazil1 in 17as 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 Miryam 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)

12,284,478 named Maria, 2022

#1 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

11 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
679 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador, as Maria

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MariaLatin(measured from records)
МарияCyrillic(measured from records)
מריםHebrew(measured from records)
ΜαριαGreek(measured from records)
ՄարիամArmenian(measured from records)
มาเรียมThai(measured from records)
ማርያምEthiopic(measured from records)
მარიამGeorgian(measured from records)
마리아Hangul(measured from records)
ମାରିଆOdia(measured from records)
ਮਾਰੀਆGurmukhi(measured from records)

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maria in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, EC Ecuador and 1 more, Mary in US United States, PH Philippines, CZ Czechia 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Miryam 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.

Where Miryam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#112,284,478as Maria1 in 1712MMaria306
AR Argentina#1≈2,300,000 est.≈1 in 205.3KMaria253
RU Russia#19≈2,000,000 est.≈1 in 72#4Мария263
US United States#11,768,343as Mary1 in 1881.8MMary679
PH Philippines#1≈1,200,000 est.≈1 in 9227KMary225
EC Ecuador#11,042,139as Maria1 in 161MMaria165
CZ Czechia#22521,052as Marie1 in 21521KMary130
SV El Salvador#2≈410,000 est.≈1 in 16627Maria110

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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; 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; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Miryam is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Peru

    Also written Mir-Yam, Miryàm

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Indonesia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mįrÿąm, Miryàm

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Miryām, Míryam

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Else Hofmann, b. 1893Miriam Nevo, b. 1917Miryam Samuel, b. 1947Miryam Quiñones, b. 1950Miryam Romero, b. 1963Miryam Gallego, b. 1976Miryam Roper, b. 1982Myriam Charles, b. 1984Miryam Tristán, b. 1985Miryam Haddad, b. 1991

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)

InformalHola Miryam,Hi Miryam, (English)

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 62 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Miryam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.5K#438
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#7,108
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022401—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—397#15,552
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—225#23,593
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202035—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202513—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207#7,108
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#23,612
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20212#5,297
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19982—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20231—

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 Miryam?
In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Miryam?
A machine transcription gives /miɾʝam/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Miryam a male or female name?
Miryam 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.
In which country does Miryam have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 million people named Maria, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Miryam most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Miryam itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 16 people named Maria.
How common is the name Miryam?
In Brazil, the national register counted 12,284,478 people named Maria in 2022, about 1 in 17 residents.
How common is Miryam compared with other names?
In Brazil, Miryam is the most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Miryam” — the most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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