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Naima

#2,033 in 2025Girls' name

My pleasantness, through Naimi

Naima has been given to 4,757 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #2,033 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 305 recorded.

Babies named Naima, 2025

1 in 35,300

Naima over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naima: meaning, origin, and history

My pleasantness, through Naimi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naima means

Naima belongs to the name family reached through Naima → Naimi → Naemi. Its meaning is “my pleasantness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Naima is used in Estonian, Finnish and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Naimi, Naomi and Naemi.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Naima is pronounced /ˈnɑi̯mɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,757 girls were recorded with the name Naima between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 305 in 2007; its best national rank was #891 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,739 in 2020 to #2,033 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,474 in 2015 to #2,033 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 Naima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,033
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naima 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naimas were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,757
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (1,689).

Is Naima 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
+158
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−294
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−559
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.8%
Peak was 2007 (305)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#891
2006

Spellings of Naima

Naima is not the most common spelling — Norma is, with 20.2% against Naima's 0.35%.

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 Naima is used

Across 2016–2025, Naima was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 13,288 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 5,263
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 5,556
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 7,143
  4. 4New York1 in 8,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 10,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 10,000
  7. 7California1 in 11,111
  8. 8Georgia1 in 14,286

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.

Naima around the world

Where Naima 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
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2011
    #810
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1954–2025
    #645
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2012
    #606
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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 Naima

People whose public names include Naima, 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.

Naima in other languages

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

NaiaNoomiNaiomi

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

Naima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,033
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 294
Best rank ever
#891
2006
Peak year
2007
305 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,757
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Naima

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

NailaNailahNaidaNaiyaNaiaNairaNaimahNaishaNainaNaileaNaiomiBlimaNaijaNairobiHalimaNairiSimaNaiaraJemimaNaiariNaiahRimaImaKarima

Names with a curve like Naima

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

MayteAzulSamiyaMyleeSanaiJaslynSaniyahDiyaGizelleJamiyahKamyaKirra

Sibling names for Naima

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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