# Mariama (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mariama/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,177 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 2,177 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 500, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 74 | 2,475 |
| 2012 | 58 | 2,963 |
| 2013 | 59 | 2,891 |
| 2014 | 55 | 3,067 |
| 2015 | 50 | 3,289 |
| 2016 | 72 | 2,513 |
| 2017 | 50 | 3,231 |
| 2018 | 68 | 2,577 |
| 2019 | 56 | 2,950 |
| 2020 | 62 | 2,703 |
| 2021 | 58 | 2,911 |
| 2022 | 53 | 3,106 |
| 2023 | 54 | 3,069 |
| 2024 | 77 | 2,378 |
| 2025 | 76 | 2,375 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,489 |
| 2012 | 23 | 1,387 |
| 2013 | 23 | 1,400 |
| 2014 | 19 | 1,562 |
| 2015 | 20 | 1,549 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,689 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,512 |
| 2018 | 21 | 1,490 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,497 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,767 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,959 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | 14 | 2,006 |

## People named Mariama

- Mariama Jamanka, German bobsledder
- Mariama Hima, Filmmaker, ethnologist and Nigerien politician
- Mariama Signaté, French handball player
- Mariama Khan, Gambian filmmaker, poet, cultural activist and scholar
- Mariama Ouiminga, Burkinabe athletics competitor (born 1970)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.