Alimah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Alimah has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Alimah, 2016
1 in 524,000
Alimah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Alimah?
Alimah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 524,000
- 7 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 253,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Alimah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alimah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Alimahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Alimah was born before 2011 — so the typical Alimah is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 69.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 52
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 69.2% of all recorded uses (36).
Is Alimah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2011 (12)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.2% average annual change
Spellings of Alimah
Alimah is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 21.9% against Alimah's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Alimah around the world
Where Alimah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–2023#4,710in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Alimah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Alimah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Alimah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.