Alima
Alima was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,336 among girls’ names; 495 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alima?
#6,336 among girls’ names, 2025
Alima fell from #6,246 in 2015 to #6,336 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 11.2 per million.
25 babies in 2018, the peak
Alima peaked in 2018, when 25 girls were given it, #5,158 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,336 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,454 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,683 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,998 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,959 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,670 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,993 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,158 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,104 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,620 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,246 | 11.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,069 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,636 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,470 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,420 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,229 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,006 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,088 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,120 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,499 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,828 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,669 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,066 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,241 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,577 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,912 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,735 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,610 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,886 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,164 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,830 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,659 | 7.1 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,416 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,353 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,164 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,422 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,782 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,463 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,314 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alima, and how old are they?
An estimated 489 Americans named Alima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 640 people named Alima (631 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 167,471 babies since 1880, Alima is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 720 babies (2.5%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alima
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alima and names like it
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