How popular is “Mariam” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mariam” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mariam” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mariam” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mariam” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mariam” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mariam” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mariam” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1882	5	0.00002257	5		100%
1883	6	0.000027657	6		100%
1890	6	0.000019907	6		100%
1891	6	0.00002093	6		100%
1892	6	0.000017944	6		100%
1893	5	0.000015374	5		100%
1894	7	0.000020668	7		100%
1897	9	0.00002594	9		100%
1898	8	0.000020972	8		100%
1899	9	0.00002653	9		100%
1900	14	0.000031093	14		100%
1902	9	0.000023272	9		100%
1903	10	0.000026233	10		100%
1904	5	0.000012392	5		100%
1905	7	0.000016512	7		100%
1906	15	0.00003501	15		100%
1907	12	0.000025785	12		100%
1908	16	0.000032743	16		100%
1909	8	0.000015649	8		100%
1910	13	0.000022007	13		100%
1911	15	0.000023282	15		100%
1912	21	0.000021254	21		100%
1913	35	0.00003078	35		100%
1914	33	0.000023299	33		100%
1915	54	0.000029469	54		100%
1916	54	0.000027915	54		100%
1917	58	0.000028902	58		100%
1918	65	0.000029939	65		100%
1919	62	0.00002938	62		100%
1920	70	0.000030937	70		100%
1921	61	0.00002613	61		100%
1922	52	0.000022716	52		100%
1923	71	0.000030836	71		100%
1924	64	0.000026873	64		100%
1925	59	0.000025286	59		100%
1926	59	0.000025698	59		100%
1927	60	0.000025869	60		100%
1928	44	0.000019461	44		100%
1929	49	0.000022352	49		100%
1930	49	0.000022039	49		100%
1931	32	0.000015206	32		100%
1932	50	0.000023682	50		100%
1933	31	0.000015504	31		100%
1934	29	0.000013964	29		100%
1935	27	0.000012919	27		100%
1936	28	0.000013477	28		100%
1937	37	0.000017365	37		100%
1938	33	0.000014915	33		100%
1939	33	0.000014977	33		100%
1940	25	0.000010857	25		100%
1941	32	0.000013134	32		100%
1942	16	0.000005857	16		100%
1943	33	0.000011692	33		100%
1944	25	0.000009293	25		100%
1945	23	0.00000867	23		100%
1946	22	0.000006885	22		100%
1947	31	0.000008606	31		100%
1948	20	0.000005793	20		100%
1949	21	0.000006026	21		100%
1950	26	0.000007421	26		100%
1951	13	0.000003529	13		100%
1952	33	0.000008689	33		100%
1953	27	0.000007006	27		100%
1954	33	0.00000829	33		100%
1955	23	0.000005728	23		100%
1956	31	0.000007519	31		100%
1957	23	0.000005473	23		100%
1958	21	0.00000508	21		100%
1959	21	0.000005051	21		100%
1960	23	0.000005537	23		100%
1961	39	0.000009415	39		100%
1962	28	0.000006939	28		100%
1963	42	0.000010611	42		100%
1964	29	0.00000746	29		100%
1965	35	0.000009654	35		100%
1966	32	0.000009207	32		100%
1967	28	0.000008248	28		100%
1968	36	0.000010656	36		100%
1969	49	0.000014099	49		100%
1970	28	0.000007764	28		100%
1971	45	0.000013111	45		100%
1972	32	0.000010181	32		100%
1973	39	0.000012927	39		100%
1974	37	0.000012171	37		100%
1975	36	0.000011923	36		100%
1976	52	0.000017137	52		100%
1977	47	0.000014796	47		100%
1978	48	0.000015123	48		100%
1979	70	0.00002104	70		100%
1980	86	0.000024967	86		100%
1981	85	0.000024571	85		100%
1982	101	0.000028792	101		100%
1983	99	0.000028585	99		100%
1984	103	0.000029523	103		100%
1985	113	0.000031661	113		100%
1986	100	0.000028113	100		100%
1987	119	0.000033004	119		100%
1988	133	0.000035994	133		100%
1989	145	0.000037717	140	5	93%
1990	159	0.000040228	159		100%
1991	192	0.000049291	192		100%
1992	211	0.00005493	211		100%
1993	184	0.000048803	184		100%
1994	206	0.000055411	206		100%
1995	198	0.000054067	198		100%
1996	247	0.000067723	247		100%
1997	259	0.000071434	259		100%
1998	292	0.000079387	292		100%
1999	301	0.000081486	301		100%
2000	350	0.000092595	350		100%
2001	368	0.000098307	368		100%
2002	378	0.000101116	378		100%
2003	409	0.000107566	409		100%
2004	405	0.000105995	405		100%
2005	459	0.000119381	459		100%
2006	410	0.000103635	410		100%
2007	424	0.000106061	424		100%
2008	441	0.000112195	441		100%
2009	441	0.00011544	441		100%
2010	476	0.000128797	476		100%
2011	419	0.00011455	419		100%
2012	458	0.000125227	458		100%
2013	463	0.000127	463		100%
2014	540	0.000145695	540		100%
2015	548	0.000148072	548		100%
2016	569	0.000155096	569		100%
2017	556	0.000155473	556		100%
2018	561	0.000159561	561		100%
2019	533	0.000153561	533		100%
2020	455	0.000136204	455		100%
2021	467	0.000137842	467		100%
2022	528	0.000156068	528		100%
2023	567	0.000171237	567		100%
2024	621	0.00018657	621		100%

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