Mariamma
Meaning
“Mary (Syriac Mariam, of debated meaning) with the Malayalam suffix amma, mother; the signature grandmother-generation form of the Syrian Christian community, and among US Malayali families today it most often appears as a middle name honoring an ammachi, a grandmother”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mariamma has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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