Myriam is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Myriam is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Myriam. In the SmartGenius ranking, Myriam is #3,580 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Myriam.
While Myriam isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2003 the name Myriam reached its highest popularity with #1,561 in our ranking of all female first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their daughter Myriam (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five girls named Myriam to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Myriam has been given to babies in 99 of the 143 years since records began, making girls with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Myriam was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 38 babies were born with the name Myriam. This puts the name in rank 3,438 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 3,900,839 newborns was named Myriam that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Myriam has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Myriam are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Myriam is registered in 10 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Myriam live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 25,229 would turn around if you called the name Myriam across New York.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Myriam is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Myriam and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Myriam, you can simply say:
Mouse
Yoyo
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Myriam
Myriam
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
Y
R
I
A
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
Y
R
I
A
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Myriam sounds like this:
