Lima
#9,829 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lima has been given to 190 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #9,829 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1904, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Lima, 2025
1 in 332,000
Lima 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lima?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,829
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lima sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Limas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lima was born before 1929 — so the typical Lima is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 22.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 91
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (43).
Is Lima 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
- +913
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,584
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,789
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 1904 (10)
- Years since peak
- 121
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.4% average annual change
Spellings of Lima
Lima is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 19.3% against Lima'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.
Lima around the world
Where Lima 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#2,605in 2025
- France1962–2025#3,529in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Lima by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lima
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lima
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.