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Reshma

Girls' name

Silk

Reshma has been given to 446 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Reshma, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Reshma: meaning, origin, and history

Silk

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Reshma means

Reshma means “silk”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Reshma is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 446 girls were recorded with the name Reshma between 1972 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,127 in 1981.

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.

How common is Reshma?

Reshma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Reshma 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Reshma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reshmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Reshma was born before 1989 — so the typical Reshma is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
446
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Reshma 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (21)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,127
1981

Spellings of Reshma

Reshma is not the most common spelling — Retha is, with 21.9% against Reshma's 0.92%.

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 Reshma is used

Across 1910–2025, Reshma was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 544,316 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New 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. Reshma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Reshma around the world

Where Reshma 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
    1996–2013
    #3,536
    in 2013
  • France
    1989–2001
    #4,980
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Reshma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,127
1981
Peak year
2000
21 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
446
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Reshma

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

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Sibling names for Reshma

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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