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Seema

#10,775 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Sima

Seema has been given to 1,192 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #10,775 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Seema, 2025

1 in 368,000

Seema over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seema: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sima

Sanskrit

What Seema means

Seema is a alternate transcription of Sima.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Seema is a alternate transcription of Sima. Sima has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Seema is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sima.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,192 girls were recorded with the name Seema between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,931 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,830 in 2020 to #10,775 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,864 in 2015 to #10,775 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 Seema?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,775
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seema 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seemas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seema was born before 1984 — so the typical Seema is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,192
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1980s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (362).

Is Seema 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
−1,319
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,055
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,911
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.1%
Peak was 1981 (56)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,931
1978

Spellings of Seema

Seema is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 58.9% against Seema's 0.09%.

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 Seema is used

Across 1910–2025, Seema was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 204,893 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. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Maryland1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 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. Seema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Seema around the world

Where Seema 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
    1996–2020
    #3,899
    in 2020
  • Scotland
    1986–1986
    #565
    in 1986
  • Canada
    1991–2004
    #2,405
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1973–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Seema by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,775
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,055
Best rank ever
#1,931
1978
Peak year
1981
56 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,192
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Seema

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

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Sibling names for Seema

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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