Meaning not yet researched.
Naimah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,941 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,941 in 1977; #6,263 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Naimah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,263 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,941.
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Naimah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,941 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 77 (2011).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Naimah, making it the 6,263rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 589 places from #6,852 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 17 girls named Naimah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,941, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 77, in 2011. For comparison, it was #5,254 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Naimah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 42 babies. In all, 1,660 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 442 babies named Naimah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 254 US girls were named Naimah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Naima (4,757 babies since 1880) and Naoma (2,534 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Naeemah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naeemah (647).
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 Naimah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,263 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,852 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,586 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,894 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,971 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,146 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,811 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,254 | — | — |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,980 | — | — |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,309 | — | — |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,966 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,167 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,496 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,444 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,483 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,712 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,149 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,621 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,341 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,480 | — | — |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,813 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,233 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,238 | — | — |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,082 | — | — |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,088 | — | — |
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).