Maryam
Also spelled: Mariam
Usually a girl's name
- Meaning
- Arabic and Persian form of Mary. Origin disputed: 'bitter' or 'rebellion', or 'beloved' Disputed
- Origin
- Arabic and Persian, from Aramaic
- Popularity
US 2025: #351 (girls) · England and Wales 2025: #52
Popularity: US Social Security Administration 2025; Office for National Statistics 2025, England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This name's meaning doesn't link to one of the five elements, so it isn't matched to a chart here.
Sources
- Wiktionary: Maryam
- Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, A Dictionary of First Names (OUP, 2006): Maryam, Encyclopedia.com copy
- Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, A Dictionary of First Names (OUP, 2006): Mariam, Oxford Reference summary
- Wikipedia: Maryam (name) (cites Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges)
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources: Mary