Maryam is the Arabic and Aramaic form of Mary, mother of Jesus. The Quran contains an entire surah — chapter 19, Sūrat Maryam — devoted to her, and she is the only woman named explicitly in the entire Quran. In Islam, Maryam is one of the most honoured women in history.
The original Hebrew form, Miriam, was the name of Moses's sister. The ambiguity has not slowed its use — over the past two thousand years Maryam, in its various forms (Mary, Maria, Marie, Mariam, Miriam, Maryam), has been one of the most common female names in the world.
Within the Arab world, Maryam is among the most popular girl names.
Maryam does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maryam reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.