Meaning not yet researched.
Naima: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #891 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #891 in 2006; #2,033 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Naima in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,033 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #891.
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Naima: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #891 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 305 (2007).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Naima, making it the 2,033rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 158 places from #2,191 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 87 girls named Naima in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #891, reached in 2006. The most girls given the name in a single year was 305, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,474 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Naima in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 9 babies. In all, 4,757 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,689 babies named Naima.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,183 US girls were named Naima; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 168. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Naima ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,319 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Naia (2,228 babies since 1880), Naiomi (1,190 babies since 1880), Naoma (2,534 babies since 1880) and Naimah (1,660 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Najma, Naama and Naeema are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Najma (885), Naama (321), Naeema (311), Nahima (121), Naamah (118), Naema (57), Naiema (54), Nayma (34), Nayima (21), Naiima (12), Naiyma (10), Naioma (10), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Naima in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 5 | #1,319 | #832 |
| New York | 9 | #1,484 | #1,116 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,566 | #1,404 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,717 | #1,698 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,821 | #1,596 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,160 | #2,158 |
| California | 9 | #2,227 | #1,321 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 2017 | 168 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2016 | 152 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 2015 | 156 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2014 | 188 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 2013 | 146 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2011 | 233 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2010 | 202 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2009 | 247 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 2008 | 287 | #945 | — | — |
| 2007 | 305 | #904 | — | — |
| 2006 | 299 | #891 | — | — |
| 2005 | 283 | #892 | — | — |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,712 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,605 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,183 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,621 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,981 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,461 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,324 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,979 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,905 | — | — |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,587 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,182 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,331 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).