About the name Myriam
Myriam belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Myriam first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1671 in 2003, and in 2024 28 babies received the name — 3,131 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.