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Naeema

#12,777 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Naima

Naeema has been given to 311 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #12,777 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Naeema, 2025

1 in 474,000

Naeema over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naeema: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Naima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naeema means

Naeema is a alternate transcription of Naima.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Naeema is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /na.ˈʕiː.ma/ for Naeema.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Naeema → Naima → Naimi → Naemi. The family’s meaning is “my pleasantness”, recorded in Finnish with the source elements no'omí.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Naima.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 311 girls were recorded with the name Naeema between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2020; its best national rank was #6,544 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,544 in 2020 to #12,777 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,947 in 2015 to #12,777 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 Naeema?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,777
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naeema 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naeema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naeemas were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
311
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Naeema 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
−6,233
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,830
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.9%
Peak was 2020 (18)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,544
2020

Spellings of Naeema

Naeema is not the most common spelling — Naima is, with 19.2% against Naeema's 1.3%.

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 Naeema is used

Across 1910–2025, Naeema was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Naeema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Naeema around the world

Where Naeema 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Naeema by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,233
Best rank ever
#6,544
2020
Peak year
2020
18 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
311
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Naeema

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

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Sibling names for Naeema

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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