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Rima

#4,049 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Rima has been given to 1,654 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #4,049 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Rima, 2025

1 in 92,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rima: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rima means

Rima has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Rima

A separate documented entry treats Rima as a variant of Rim. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Rima as a short form of Rimantė. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Rima is used in English and Lithuanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,654 girls were recorded with the name Rima between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,505 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,453 in 2020 to #4,049 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,972 in 2015 to #4,049 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 Rima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,049
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rima 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rima was born before 1990 — so the typical Rima is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,528
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (281).

Is Rima 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
+1,212
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,404
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−77
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.7%
Peak was 2015 (38)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,505
1966

Spellings of Rima

Rima is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 17.4% against Rima's 0.03%.

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 Rima is used

Across 1910–2025, Rima was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 200,172 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Rima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rima around the world

Where Rima 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
  • France
    1974–2025
    #845
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Rima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,049
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,404
Best rank ever
#2,505
1966
Peak year
2015
38 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,654
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Rima

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

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Sibling names for Rima

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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