Miriam
For 2025 the count puts Miriam at #246 nationwide, keeping its place without fuss. The peak was 1924, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Miriam carries
Miriam · Hebrew
“bitter”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Miriam’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Miriam, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Miriam since 1880
Miriam peaked in 1924 at #143; #246 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Miriam is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Miriam runs strongest in Vermont at 0.51% in 2025, then New Jersey and New York.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Miriam
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Mary
#125 in 2025 · Hebrew
Eva
#134 in 2025 · Hebrew
Anna
#107 in 2025 · Hebrew
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ruth
#173 in 2025 · Hebrew
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Miriam
How common is Miriam today?
For 2025 the count puts Miriam at #246 nationwide, keeping its place without fuss. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What is the recorded meaning of Miriam?
The reference we cite records “bitter”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Miriam?
The recipe puts Mary first, then Anna, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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