Given name
Mariamu
Mariamu is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in Swahili.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mariamu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,414 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,414 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1999.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mariamu’s family of names
In Swahili usage, Mariamu has a conventional equivalent in the English form Miriam.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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