Dima — #6729 US unisex name
397 babies named Dima in U.S. Social Security records since 1983, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 62% of names given to girls today.
42% of everyone ever named Dima was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Dima in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dima
The Social Security Administration has registered 397 babies named Dima between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dima currently holds the #6729 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Dima is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 79 additional births since 1996.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dima performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 167 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dima shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dima in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dima 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 397 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.
Dima at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dima popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1983
- Peak year (2016)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
Currently ranks #6729 among girls.
397 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 26 births in a single year.
Dima popularity over time — boys
79 total births recorded since 1996 (Dima as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Dima accounts for 17% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dima by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 167 births that decade — 42% of Dima's all-time total
Dima decade highlights
- Peak decade 167 births
- Runner-up 89 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Dima's strongest decade
167 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Dima by state
Where Dima concentrates geographically — total births since 1983
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.3% |
5 of 397 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.3% 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, 1983–2024 (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.