Mariam (مريم) is the Arabic and Aramaic form of Mary — from the Hebrew Miriam. The Quran's Sura 19 is named Mariam after the mother of Jesus, who in Islam is considered the most honoured of all women.
Mariam is among the most popular girls' names across the Arab world and the Muslim diaspora. In the U.S. it is rising — currently sitting in the top 500.
Mariam does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mariam reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.