Mirjam

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Mirjam is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Namibia it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Miriam; Mirijam; Myriam: aus der Bibel übernommener weibl.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 937◐
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 3.3K
  • ATAustria1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈32K ●

across 14 countries

Sources
169 ●

33K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 659 ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

) Miriam; Mirijam; Myriam: aus der Bibel übernommener weibl. Vom. he­ bräischen (aramäischen) Ursprungs. Die griechische und lateinische Form von Mirjam ist

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mirjam is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#21018,43711K rec.1 in 93718KMirjam110
DE Germany#73316,61814K rec.—1Mirjam169
FI Finland—8,451△75 rec.1 in 65927KMirjam19
AT Austria#4943,860467 rec.—1KMirjam70
SE Sweden—2,746△607 rec.1 in 3.7K2.7KMirjam33
CH Switzerland#2592,4021.5K rec.——Mirjam85
SI Slovenia—1,184△41 rec.1 in 1.8K1.2K—15
NO Norway—484△234 rec.1 in 11K1.7KMirjam28
AU Australia—458402 rec.—1Mirjam52
GB United Kingdom—440333 rec.——Mirjam51
HR Croatia—331—1 in 13K451——
US United States—2802.5K rec.1 in 1.2M280Mirjam102

Roughly 18K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 937). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish90K40%
  • Western Frisian34K15%
  • Dutch29K13%
  • German27K12%
  • English25K11%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish90,24740%
Western Frisian33,56615%
Dutch28,90813%
German27,00312%
English25,08911%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mirjam is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name95K records spelled Mirjam12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Netherlands, Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Indonesian

    Also written Mirjám

  • Spanish given name3.7K records spelled Mirjam7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Mirjám, Mirjām

  • Hungarian given name2.8K records spelled Mirjam3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, Switzerland, Netherlands

    Also written Mirjám, Mírjam

  • a separate given name906 records spelled Mirjam2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Switzerland, India

    Also written Mirjám

  • Czech given name692 records spelled Mirjam3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Netherlands, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Mirjám

36 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.

Over time●

051015201960197019801990200020 · 1975

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Mirjam in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1952–2009
Yearrecords
19525
19534
19545
196010
19636
19645
19665
19678
19684
196911
19707
197111
197213
197311
197413
197520
197616
197710
197811
197916
198016
198114
198212
198314
198416
198515
19868
19877
198812
198913
19905
19916
199211
19939
199410
19959
19967
19974
19988
20007
20016
20027
20037
20047
20054
20094

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 46 years between 1952–2009. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Mirjam Vire-Tuominen, b. 1919Mirjam Pressler, b. 1940Mirjam Mous, b. 1963Micky Hoogendijk, b. 1970Mirjam Ott, b. 1972Mirjam Weichselbraun, b. 1981Susanne Thorson, b. 1981Mirjam Heimann, b. 1981Mirjam Novak, b. 1985Mirjam Puchner, b. 1992

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 53 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Mirjam
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—27K#167
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—18K#116
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—15K#259
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—8.5K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.7K#883
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.7K#1,206
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.2K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20211.2K#183
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20221.2K#185
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20151.2K#183
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.2K#185
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.2K#349

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 344 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mirjam?
We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Mirjam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Mirjam have the most bearers?
We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Mirjam in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mirjam.
Where is Mirjam most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mirjam is densest in Finland — about 1 in 659 people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mirjam compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Mirjam is the 210th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Mirjam a male or female name?
Mirjam 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 does the name Mirjam mean?
Recorded meaning: ) Miriam; Mirijam; Myriam: aus der Bibel übernommener weibl.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Mirjam” — the 210th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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