Bismah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bismah has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2001, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Bismah, 2018
1 in 440,000
Bismah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bismah?
Bismah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 440,000
- 8 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 304,713 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bismah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 304,713 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bismah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bismahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bismah was born before 2002 — so the typical Bismah is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 63.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 49
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (31).
Is Bismah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2001 (8)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.6% average annual change
Spellings of Bismah
Bismah is not the most common spelling — Aishah is, with 66.5% against Bismah's 2.5%.
Bismah around the world
Where Bismah 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,927in 2025
- Scotland2003–2003#667in 2003
- France1999–2012#6,099in 2012
- Canada1999–2020#3,347in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Bismah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bismah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bismah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.