Myriam

#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births

Peak · girls
2003 · 115 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,160
since 1912

Myriam over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Myriam has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201912peak #1,668, 2003girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#4,87827
2024#4,66929
2023#4,11435
2022#3,89338
2021#3,80139
2020#4,54829
2019#4,07235
2018#3,29348
2017#4,30433
2016#4,42332
2015#3,91538
2014#4,26934
2013#3,84939
2012#3,85440
2011#3,26750
2010#4,49432
2009#3,29850
2008#3,37749
2007#2,93061
2006#2,85061
2005#2,78759
2004#2,34573
2003#1,668115
2002#2,06483
2001#2,60058
2000#2,54559
1999#2,18269
1998#2,79847
1997#2,30958
1996#2,42353
1995#2,28258
1994#2,35355
1993#2,17661
1992#2,38654
1991#2,44951
1990#2,79941
1989#3,40230
1988#3,09532
1987#2,57239
1986#3,36026
1985#2,65736
1984#3,72621
1983#2,51636
1982#3,53023
1981#2,52937
1980#2,69934
1979#2,79531
1978#2,62932
1977#2,83828
1976#2,38734
1975#1,98644
1974#2,61628
1973#2,12737
1972#2,27633
1971#1,96643
1970#2,16037
1969#2,13435
1968#1,88740
1967#2,32727
1966#1,95235
1965#1,76841
1964#2,34827
1963#2,01534
1962#1,98934
1961#2,54323
1960#2,01332
1959#2,45822
1958#2,37623
1957#3,15014
1956#2,32123
1955#2,72517
1954#2,29522
1953#1,75832
1952#2,80615
1951#2,31419
1950#2,90913
1949#3,39310
1948#4,2057
1947—
1946#4,4176
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1944#4,0546
1943#4,6915
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1941#3,2528
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1939#3,7826
1938#4,3425
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1935#4,2045
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1933#4,2185
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1931#4,3315
1930#3,3458
1929#3,6827
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1927#4,8055
1926#4,3066
1925#3,6648
1924#3,6658
1923#3,6418
1922#4,4456
1921#4,0237
1920#2,35715
1919#4,8145
1918#3,5128
1917#3,3448
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1913#3,1875
1912#2,6346
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First appearance
1912

The first year at least five girls were named Myriam! It came in at #2,634, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1913–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Myriam is popular in 1912

No state had 5 or more girls named Myriam in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Myriam
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 209 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #4,878)
  • 330 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #4,878)
  • 963 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #4,878)
Rise & fade · girls
91 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 2003 at #1,668 (115 births)
  • Births halved by 2008, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,888
  • Highest: 1 in 15,888 girls born in 2003 were named Myriam (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 21.1% of all girls named Myriam (668) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s32#2,634 (1912)#3,498
1920s70#2,357 (1920)#3,843
1930s34#3,345 (1930)#4,037
1940s42#3,252 (1941)#4,002
1950s200#1,758 (1953)#2,511
1960s328#1,768 (1965)#2,098
1970s347#1,966 (1971)#2,378
1980s314#2,516 (1983)#3,009
1990s547#2,176 (1993)#2,416
2000s668#1,668 (2003)#2,646
2010s381#3,267 (2011)#3,974
2020s197#3,801 (2021)#4,317

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Myriam in 1912

girls
#2,634
6 births · 1 in 93,020 girls

Top girls' names in 1912

  1. #1Mary32,304
  2. #2Helen16,133
  3. #3Dorothy12,645
  4. #4Margaret12,536
  5. #5Ruth11,280
  6. #6Mildred8,764
  7. #7Anna8,586
  8. #8Elizabeth8,527
  9. #9Frances6,680
  10. #10Marie6,642
  11. #2,634Myriam6
More about 1912

girls

558,119 girls got a published name in 1912; 1 in 93,020 of them was named Myriam, which outranked 23.5% of the 3,445 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Myriam
  1. #2,360Zillah7
  2. #2,360Zofia7
  3. #2,360Zonnie7
  4. #2,634Myriam6
  5. #2,634Achsah6
  6. #2,634Adena6
  7. #2,634Adina6
  8. #2,979Adelma5
  9. #2,979Adie5
  10. #2,979Adlene5

Tied with 344 names at #2,634; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1911
Risers
  1. ↑ 712Jule#1,545 → #833
  2. ↑ 626Beula#1,545 → #919
  3. ↑ 602Noma#1,372 → #770
  4. ↑ 577Walter#1,372 → #795
  5. ↑ 490Izora#1,450 → #960
Fallers
  1. ↓ 912Mabell#932 → #1,844
  2. ↓ 602Justina#875 → #1,477
  3. ↓ 579Irine#898 → #1,477
  4. ↓ 579Sula#898 → #1,477
  5. ↓ 568Cordia#853 → #1,421

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1912 →