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Shaima

#14,674 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly beauty marks

Shaima has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #14,674 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Shaima, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaima: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly beauty marks

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaima means

Shaima may mean “beauty marks”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shaima is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃaj.ˈmaːʔ/ for Shaima.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 277 girls were recorded with the name Shaima between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,186 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,255 in 2020 to #14,674 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,556 in 2015 to #14,674 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.

How common is Shaima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,674
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaima 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaima was born before 2011 — so the typical Shaima is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
277
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Shaima 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
−1,419
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,118
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 2016 (17)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,186
2016

Spellings of Shaima

Shaima is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 41.0% against Shaima's 0.05%.

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 Shaima is used

Across 1910–2025, Shaima was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 688,321 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Shaima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaima around the world

Where Shaima 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
    1996–2024
    #3,696
    in 2024
  • France
    1990–2025
    #1,879
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2003–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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.

Shaima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,674
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,419
Best rank ever
#7,186
2016
Peak year
2016
17 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
277
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Shaima

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

ShatimaShakimaShahadShaktiSharviShanviShaymaSharimaShailiShalvaShaziaShairaShayanaShaiviShanzayShaddaiShamsShadiaShanylaShadaiSharayaShauniShanynShanah

Sibling names for Shaima

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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