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Halima

#1,902 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Halim

Halima has been given to 2,310 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,902 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Halima, 2025

1 in 32,500

Halima over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halima: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Halim

Arabic

What Halima means

Halima is a feminine form of Halim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Halima → Halim → حَلِيم. The family’s meaning is “to be patient”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements ḥaluma.

Origin, language, and formation

Halima is used in English, Hausa and Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Halima comes through Arabic حَلِيمَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Halim and حَلِيم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hausa, Halima is pronounced /hà.líː.mà/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,310 girls were recorded with the name Halima between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,689 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,929 in 2020 to #1,902 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,484 in 2015 to #1,902 in 2025.

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 Halima?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,500
102 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,902
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,530 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halima 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,530 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halima was born before 2012 — so the typical Halima is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,310
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (677).

Is Halima 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
−213
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+27
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+582
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.3%
Peak was 2024 (121)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,689
2024

Spellings of Halima

Halima is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 29.4% against Halima's 0.41%.

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.

Where Halima is used

Across 2016–2025, Halima was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 18,731 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 5,556
  2. 2New York1 in 6,250
  3. 3Ohio1 in 8,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 20,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 20,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Halima around the world

Where Halima 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
    1996–2025
    #335
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1938–2025
    #339
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #424
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #856
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Halima

People whose public names include Halima, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Halima in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Halima. Linked forms have their own page here.

HaleemaHalimah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Halima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,902
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 27
Best rank ever
#1,689
2024
Peak year
2024
121 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,310
Count in 2025
102

Names similar to Halima

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

HalleeHalleyHalinaHalliHalseyJemimaHaliaKarimaHalenHalaHalonaHalenaHallyHalieHalstonHalimahHaloHaliHaleeHaleemaBlimaHalanaHalynHaleigh

Names with a curve like Halima

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Halima, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YehudisHindyAriesJannahMarbellaRivkyLovelySafiyaIrinaMalkyShaindyRaizy

Sibling names for Halima

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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