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Sima

#2,687 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sima has been given to 2,125 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #2,687 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Sima, 2025

1 in 51,000

Sima over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sima: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sima means

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

The naming story behind Sima

One of the source’s documented entries for Sima records a meaning of face, visage.

One of the source’s documented entries for Sima records a meaning of boundary, limit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,125 girls were recorded with the name Sima between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 74 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,458 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,538 in 2020 to #2,687 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,122 in 2015 to #2,687 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 Sima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,687
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sima 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 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sima was born before 2005 — so the typical Sima is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,072
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2010s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (491).

Is Sima 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
−229
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+851
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+435
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.8%
Peak was 2024 (74)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,458
2024

Spellings of Sima

Sima is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 18.6% against Sima's 0.04%.

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 Sima is used

Across 1910–2025, Sima was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 34,267 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 12,500
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Maryland1 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. Sima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sima around the world

Where Sima 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
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • France
    1982–2025
    #4,303
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2020
    #2,355
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Notable people named Sima

People whose public names include Sima, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,687
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 851
Best rank ever
#2,458
2024
Peak year
2024
74 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,125
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Sima

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

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Names with a curve like Sima

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sima, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sima

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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