Entry № 6503 · Hebrew origin

Mariem Mariem — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-ree-em /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Mary"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Hassaniya)

A name that means "mary".

Mariem is from the Mauritanian / Sahrawi Hassaniya Arabic Mariem — Mauritanian rendition of Mary / Maryam (Hebrew Miriam — beloved, sea of bitterness). Mariem is one of the Mauritanian + Sahrawi + Maghrebi feminine names — central to traditional Sunni Muslim heritage.

Mary (Mauritanian-Sahrawi-Hassaniya Arabic-Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

Mariem / مريم
Transliteration
Mariem / Maryam
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.ri.ɛm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mariem stands.

Mariem 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.

Mariems before her.

Real people
Mariem Hassan
Sahrawi singer + Queen of Haul + Soutak 2012 + Tindouf refugee camps.
1958 – 2015
In fiction
Mariem
Mauritanian-Sahrawi Mary.

Names connected to Mariem.

The number behind Mariem.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mariem reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.