Myriam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French form of Hebrew Miriam; origin and meaning uncertain, often linked to Egyptian or Hebrew traditions
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miʁjam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Myriam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 843(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.1K
- ESSpain1 in 779as Miriam
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 Myriam 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- 1 in 770 (inferred from the name graph)
107,719 named Miriam, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
French form of Hebrew Miriam; origin and meaning uncertain, often linked to Egyptian or Hebrew traditions.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Myriam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 107,719as Miriam | 1 in 3.1K | 108K | Myriam | 257 |
| FR France | #161 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 843 | 99K | Myriam | 387 |
| BR Brazil | — | 74,005as Miriam | 1 in 2.9K | 74K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 64,208as Miriam | 1 in 779 | 64K | Myriam | 94 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 19,908as Miriam | 1 in 849 | 20K | Myriam | 15 |
| BE Belgium | #129 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 27 | Myriam | 130 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,196as Miriam | 1 in 981 | 5.2K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,401 | 1 in 770 | 4.4K | — | — |
107,719 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling miriam. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Myriam 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.
Variant spelling of Miriam. This is the usual spelling of the name in France. Myrna ° Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Muirne, now also used elsewhere in the English-speaking world. It is associated with the film star Myrna Loy (1905-93). Variant: Morna.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Forme originelle de Marie; prénom hébraïque, signifie « goutte de mer ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French and English: variant of MIRIAM . This is the usual spelling of the name in France.
as a word
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)
- Myriam Harryb. 1869FRpen name of Maria Rosette Shapira (April 1869 (some sources say 1875) – March 10, 1958), a French journalist and writer
- Myriam Boyerb. 1948FRFrench actress
- Myriam Spiteri Debonob. 1952MT11th president of the Republic of Malta
- Marie Myriamb. 1957FRFrench singer
- Myriam Cyrb. 1960CACanadian actress and writer
- Gildab. 1961ARnot in their usual nameArgentine singer and songwriter (1961–1996)
- Myriam L'Aouffirb. 1968MAFrench businessperson
- Myriam Faresb. 1983LBLebanese musician, actress, and dancer
- Myriam Soumaréb. 1986FRFrench athlete
- Myriam Syllab. 1995ITItalian volleyball player (born 1995)
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 73 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 99K | #249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.7K | #2,502 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 7.8K | #254 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.1K | #864 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.9K | #461 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #6,801 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1K | #9,151 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 798 | #642 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1955 | 65 | #650 |
Reference works 3
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Myriam mean, and where does it come from?
- French form of Hebrew Miriam; origin and meaning uncertain, often linked to Egyptian or Hebrew traditions. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Myriam?
- In the etymology graph, Maria, Mary and Marie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Myriam?
- A machine transcription gives /miʁjam/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Myriam a male or female name?
- Myriam 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 Myriam have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 108 thousand people named Miriam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Myriam most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Myriam is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 770 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Myriam?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 4,401 people named Myriam, about 1 in 770 residents.
- How common is Myriam compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Myriam is the 129th most common given name of 59,589 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myriamThe 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, “Myriam” — the 129th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.