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Shayma

#16,902 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Shaima

Shayma has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #16,902 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Shayma, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shayma: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Shaima

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shayma means

Shayma is a alternate transcription of Shaima.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shayma is used in Arabic.

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shayma → Shaima. The family’s proposed meaning is “beauty marks”, recorded in the naming reference for Shaima.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shaima.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 girls were recorded with the name Shayma between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2006; its best national rank was #8,040 in 1996.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,836 in 2015 to #16,902 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 Shayma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,902
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shayma 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shayma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaymas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shayma was born before 2006 — so the typical Shayma is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
170
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Shayma 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
−4,066
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 2006 (14)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,040
1996

Spellings of Shayma

Shayma is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 13.9% against Shayma'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 Shayma is used

Across 1910–2025, Shayma was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 607,828 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 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. Shayma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shayma around the world

Where Shayma 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
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1990–2025
    #2,846
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2013
    #2,840
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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.

Shayma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,902
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,040
1996
Peak year
2006
14 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
170
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Shayma

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

ShailiSharviShalvaShaktiShaiviShahadShaimaShanviShaielShaiyaShanzayShaziaShairaShayanaShalinShaiaShakyaShayleShayraShamelShailyShaanviShathaSharis

Sibling names for Shayma

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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