Miryam

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Miryam: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Miryam: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #727, and it stood at #2,411 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#727highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1998	#3142
1999	#3900
2000	#2416
2003	#3594
2004	#4598
2007	#4294
2009	#4564
2011	#3549
2013	#5742
2014	#4684
2018	#4684
2019	#3151
2020	#2449
2021	#2942
2022	#3533
2023	#2689
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 19 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #727 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2689 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2022–2023
Highest recorded position: #727 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2022–2023).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Miryam appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 103 births with the name.

Miryam across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Miryam's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#2411 (2024)	#2411 (2024)	19 of 29	103 (1996–2024)	11 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#747 (2022)	#727 (2023)	#727 (2023)	2 of 2	8 (2022–2023)	4 (2022)

Miryam by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Miryam in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	4 of 10	4
2000s	21	5 of 10	4
2010s	24	5 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	44	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Miryam appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Miryam's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #727, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
7 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
7separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#2,411position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
26 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
11births registered in its largest year, 2024Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aafiyah · #727, 17y
Aras · #727, 17y
Bleu · #727, 23y
Cash · #727, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aditi · #727, 30y
Afnan · #727, 27y
Arsalan · #727, 29y
Ayoub · #727, 29y

Miryam was ranked #727 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Miryam and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Miryam without appearing here.

Miryam moved ahead of

Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #5493.
Cooper Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #5493.
Debra Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Miryam

Ezra Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3142 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #3422.
Harper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3594 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #4598 and #3725.
Blake Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4294 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #3936.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #1939.

Moved the same way as Miryam

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Miryam went from #4598 to #2411 and Eabha from #4598 to #1262.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #727 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Miryam

Miryam at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Miryam across 2 official records

Miryam by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Miryam across 2 official records

Miryam by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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