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Halimah

#5,467 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Halima

Halimah has been given to 562 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #5,467 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Halimah, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halimah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Halima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Halimah means

Halimah is a alternate transcription of Halima.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Halima.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 562 girls were recorded with the name Halimah between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,926 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,732 in 2020 to #5,467 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,509 in 2015 to #5,467 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 Halimah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,467
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Halimah 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halimah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halimahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halimah was born before 2006 — so the typical Halimah is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
562
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Choose a decade

2000s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Halimah 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
+1,578
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,265
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,042
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (23)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,926
1989

Spellings of Halimah

Halimah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 41.5% against Halimah's 0.21%.

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 Halimah is used

Across 1910–2025, Halimah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,082,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Halimah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Halimah around the world

Where Halimah 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
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2021–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • France
    2012–2024
    #7,594
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1983–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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

Halimah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,467
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,265
Best rank ever
#4,926
1989
Peak year
2025
23 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
562
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Halimah

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

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Sibling names for Halimah

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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