Thirty years of Maryam
Maryam in numbers
Maryam is still climbing: from 176 girls in 1996 to 825 in 2025, its highest count so far. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2022 and 2025, from 646 to 825. It ranked 229th in 1996 and reached 52nd in 2025, its best place so far. On average it was given to 215 girls a year in the late 1990s, 398 in the 2000s, 673 in the 2010s and 674 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Similar spellings in the 2025 list†: Miriam (197), Mariam (179), Mariyam (25), Meryem (12), Miryam (9). Matched by their letters, not by meaning or origin. ONS counts each spelling separately, so these are not added to Maryam.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year+10%752 to 825
- 5 years+39%592 to 825
- 10 years+9%754 to 825
- 20 years+91%431 to 825
- Since 1996×5176 to 825
- Total, 1996 to 202515,606girls
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 52 · ONS · 752 in 2024
Rank 172 · NRS · 22 in 2024
Fewer than 3 babies, or not published · NISRA
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | =52 | 825 | +10% | 1 in 345 |
| 2024 | 57 | 752 | +24% | 1 in 385 |
| 2023 | 77 | 606 | -6% | 1 in 475 |
| 2022 | =75 | 646 | +4% | 1 in 456 |
| 2021 | 82 | 621 | +5% | 1 in 491 |
| 2020 | 86 | 592 | -6% | 1 in 506 |
| 2019 | =84 | 631 | -0% | 1 in 493 |
| 2018 | =82 | 634 | -8% | 1 in 504 |
| 2017 | 78 | 686 | -4% | 1 in 483 |
| 2016 | 79 | 711 | -6% | 1 in 477 |
| 2015 | 75 | 754 | +7% | 1 in 451 |
| 2014 | 74 | 705 | +1% | 1 in 480 |
| 2013 * | 80 | 701 | +0% | 1 in 487 |
| 2012 | 81 | 700 | +14% | 1 in 508 |
| 2011 | 94 | 616 | +5% | 1 in 573 |
| 2010 | 99 | 587 | +11% | 1 in 600 |
| 2009 | =102 | 531 | -9% | 1 in 648 |
| 2008 | 99 | 584 | +26% | 1 in 592 |
| 2007 | =118 | 465 | +10% | 1 in 722 |
| 2006 | 129 | 421 | -2% | 1 in 777 |
| 2005 | 127 | 431 | +24% | 1 in 731 |
| 2004 | =149 | 348 | +8% | 1 in 895 |
| 2003 | 150 | 323 | +8% | 1 in 938 |
| 2002 | 148 | 298 | +1% | 1 in 973 |
| 2001 | 155 | 296 | +5% | 1 in 980 |
| 2000 | 158 | 282 | +5% | 1 in 1,045 |
| 1999 | 165 | 269 | +25% | 1 in 1,125 |
| 1998 | =199 | 215 | +7% | n/a |
| 1997 | =211 | 200 | +14% | 1 in 1,568 |
| 1996 | 229 | 176 | 1 in 1,795 |
* ONS’s girls’ 2013 file repeats the May total as April, so the 2013 births total is about 1,360 too high and 1 in X for 2013 is slightly too high. 1 in X is not shown for girls in 1998: one monthly total is missing from the ONS girls’ 1998 file. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate