Meaning not yet researched.
Sima: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,458 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,458 in 2024; #2,687 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sima in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,687 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,458.
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Sima: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,458 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 74 (2024).
In 2025, 65 US girls were named Sima, making it the 2,687th most common girls’ name of the year, down 229 places from #2,458 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 74 girls named Sima in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,458, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #3,122 in 2015 and #4,686 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sima in 85 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 2,125 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 491 babies named Sima.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 558 US girls were named Sima; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sima ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #545 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Seema, Sema and Simaya 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Hebrew, Persian and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Seema (1,192), Sema (219), Simaya (207), Zema (170), Simao (24), Semma (21), Syma (10).
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 Sima 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 31 | #545 | #638 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #662 | #844 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,692 | — | — |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,668 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,195 | — | — |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,075 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,268 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,189 | — | — |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,173 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,066 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,818 | — | — |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,356 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,660 | — | — |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,371 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,952 | — | — |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,799 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,361 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,108 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,877 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,107 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,854 | — | — |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,903 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,042 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,456 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,711 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,692 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,393 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,721 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,378 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,410 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,489 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,842 | — | — |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,408 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,158 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,866 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,599 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,511 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,194 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,432 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,686 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,174 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,018 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,612 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,166 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,654 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,662 | — | — |
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).