Yemariam
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yeh-MAR-yam
- Origin
- Amharic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,721 for girls
Yemariam is a girls' name of Amharic origin, meaning “of Mary”. In 2025 it ranked 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).
What does Yemariam mean?
Amharic: ye- 'of' + Mariam 'Mary'
“of Mary”
An Ethiopian name honouring the Virgin Mary, Mariam in Amharic.
Is Yemariam a girl's or a boy's name?
Yemariam is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yemariam in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2021, with 5 girls.
Yemariam in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
How popular is Yemariam in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,721among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21about 1 in 77,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 10% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Yemariam, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Yemariam in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yemariam in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,721 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,293 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,293 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,829 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,451 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
Names like Yemariam
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah Liyana Ayra Ayzal Abeeha Safa Dua Mirha Irha Maeva Rehmat Aria
More Amharic names
Amare Aryam Gelila Mahelet Nolawi Haset Tafari Bruk Leul Naod Kidus Melat Haile Menelik Nuhamin Meklit
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yemariam: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yemariam, updated 20 October 2026.