Saimi

Girls' name

Diminutive of Saima

Saimi has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1905. 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 1905, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Saimi, 1917

1 in 401,000

Saimi over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saimi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Saima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saimi means

Saimi is a diminutive of Saima.

Origin, language, and formation

Saimi is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Saima.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Saimi is pronounced /ˈsɑi̯mi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Saimi between 1905 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1905; its best national rank was #1,670 in 1905.

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.

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How common is Saimi?

Saimi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1917, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1917: 1 in 401,000; 5 of 2,006,698 births
Among girls only: 1 in 216,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1917: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 278,189 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Saimi 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 1917 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 278,189 children born in 1917 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saimi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saimis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saimi was born before 1912 — so the typical Saimi is around 113 today.

Median birth year: 1912; About 113 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 61.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 61.1% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Saimi 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: 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 1905 (7)
Years since peak: 120; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #1,670; 1905

Spellings of Saimi

Saimi is not the most common spelling — Naomi is, with 39.8% against Saimi's <0.01%.

Naomi39.8%191,547
Jaime10.4%50,067
Tami7.9%37,927
Sarai4.8%22,919
Jami4.5%21,473
Tammi2.9%13,884
Saige2.5%12,119
Salma2.1%10,311

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.

Saimi 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: #1,670; 1905
Peak year: 1905; 7 that year
First recorded: 1905
Last recorded: 1917
All-time count: 18
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Saimi

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

Saiori Saiah Sailey Saile Saiomi Sailyn Saily Saije Saila Saiyah Sailah Saivi Saide Sailani Saija Sairy Saint Sairi Saiyr Saiee Saidi Kaimi Saidie Saina

Sibling names for Saimi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Hulda Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Dewey Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius

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