Merjem
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Meaning
the Bosnian form of Miriam, the Old Testament form of Mary, of uncertain meaning, possibly from an Egyptian word for "beloved"
How popular is Merjem around the world?
In the United States, 5 babies were named Merjem between 2020 and 2025. In Austria, 19 girls named Merjem were born in 2025, the 290th most common name among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
Merjem is on the official records of the United States and Austria.
United States
1 in 4.4M
In the United States, 5 babies were named Merjem between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Merjem has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Austria
1 in 4,000
In Austria, 19 girls named Merjem were born in 2025, the 290th most common name among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
The Merjem deep dive
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