Alima — #5473 US girls' name
477 babies named Alima in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 69% of names given to girls today.
34% of everyone ever named Alima was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Alima in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alima
The Social Security Administration has registered 477 babies named Alima between 1976 and 2024, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Alima currently holds the #5473 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alima performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 164 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Alima shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 41 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Alima in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alima in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 477 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Alima at a glance
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Current rank
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Alima popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1976
- Peak year (2018)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
Currently ranks #5473 among girls.
477 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 25 births in a single year.
Alima by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 164 births that decade — 34% of Alima's all-time total
Alima decade highlights
- Peak decade 164 births
- Runner-up 118 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Alima's strongest decade
164 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Alima by state
Where Alima concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 41 | 8.6% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 1.0% |
41 of 477 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 8.6% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 8.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.