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Garima

Girls' name

Dignity, prestige

Garima has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2014, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Garima, 2022

1 in 677,000

Garima over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garima: meaning, origin, and history

Dignity, prestige

Sanskrit

What Garima means

Garima means “dignity, prestige”, associated with garimā.

Origin, language, and formation

Garima is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 90 girls were recorded with the name Garima between 1997 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2014; its best national rank was #10,408 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Garima?

Garima had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garima sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garima was born before 2009 — so the typical Garima is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
90
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Garima 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (10)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,408
2014

Spellings of Garima

Garima is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 57.0% against Garima'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.

Garima around the world

Where Garima 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 & Wales
    2005–2005
    #3,382
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Garima by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,408
2014
Peak year
2014
10 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
90
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garima

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Garima

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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