Naimah
#6,262 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Naimah has been given to 1,660 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #6,262 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 77 recorded.
Babies named Naimah, 2025
1 in 174,000
Naimah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Naimah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 84,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,262
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Naimah 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naimah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Naimahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Naimah was born before 2005 — so the typical Naimah is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 26.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,660
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (442).
Is Naimah 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
- +586
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,293
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,010
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.73×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 24.7%
- Peak was 2011 (77)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Naimah
Naimah is not the most common spelling — Lailah is, with 8.6% against Naimah's 2.1%.
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 Naimah is used
Across 1910–2025, Naimah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 142,387 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5New York1 in 100,000
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Illinois1 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. Naimah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Naimah around the world
Where Naimah 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#4,867in 2025
- France1987–2013#7,734in 2013
- Canada2008–2020#3,347in 2020
- South Australia1992–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.
Naimah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Naimah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Naimah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.