Marriam
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marriam is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M◐
- MWMalawi1 in 1.4K
- ZMZambia1 in 19K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈223 ●
- Sources
- 66 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 3 countries
3.3K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | 909 | 887 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 19 |
| KE Kenya | — | 455 | 53 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 14 |
| MW Malawi | #152 | 293 | 1 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 5 |
| US United States | — | 216 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 216 | Marriam | 66 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 206 | 77 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 34 |
| PH Philippines | — | 182 | 123 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 141 | 126 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 23 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 135 | 235 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 13 |
| ZM Zambia | #980 | 113 | 7 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 8 |
| EG Egypt | — | 81 | 19 rec. | — | — | Marriam | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | 65 | 65 rec. | — | 5 | Marriam | 19 |
| AU Australia | — | 63 | 74 rec. | — | 1 | Marriam | 22 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.9K40%
- Swahili1.2K25%
- Arabic3327%
- Spanish3047%
- Hindi932%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,862 | 40% |
| Swahili | 1,157 | 25% |
| Arabic | 332 | 7% |
| Spanish | 304 | 7% |
| Hindi | 93 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 11 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 216 | #36,086 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 9 | #25,222 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #44,100 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #36,086 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1993 | 5 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| LS Lesotho | Lesotho IEC 2022 National Assembly candidate lists | 2022 | 1 | #20 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2007 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2007 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marriam?
- We estimate roughly 223 people bear Marriam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marriam have the most bearers?
- Marriam is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled marriam.
- How common is Marriam compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Marriam is the 152nd most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- Is Marriam a male or female name?
- Marriam 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.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Marriam” — the 152nd most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.