Halima
Halima was given to 102 girls in 2025, #1,902 among girls’ names; 2,310 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,280 Americans named Halima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Halima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Halima mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Halima is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic حَلِيمَة (ḥalīma).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Halima?
#1,902 among girls’ names, 2025
Halima rose from #2,484 in 2015 to #1,902 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 40.9 to 63.5 per million.
121 babies in 2024, the peak
Halima peaked in 2024, when 121 girls were given it, #1,689 among girls’ names. The 102 births of 2025 are 84% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,902 | 63.5 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,689 | 74.7 |
| 2023 | 98 | #2,008 | 61.1 |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,058 | 57.3 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,949 | 61.6 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,929 | 61.2 |
| 2019 | 87 | #2,147 | 51.8 |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,228 | 48.8 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,389 | 44.0 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,575 | 38.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #2,484 | 40.9 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,541 | 39.2 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,139 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,550 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,102 | 30.7 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,653 | 38.3 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,762 | 35.4 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,701 | 36.0 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,349 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,767 | 33.7 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,328 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,141 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,899 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,613 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,437 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,569 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,653 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,652 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,266 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,095 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,257 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,317 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,283 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,193 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,543 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,918 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,121 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,316 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,971 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,267 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,777 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,558 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,942 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,401 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,365 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,646 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,577 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,421 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,858 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,321 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,317 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,704 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,218 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,159 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,689 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,997 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Halima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Halima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Halima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Halima, and how old are they?
2,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,310 Americans ever recorded as Halima. The median Halima alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,420 people named Halima (4,406 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 196 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 248 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 715 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Halima born?
The states with the most babies named Halima are New York, Texas and Virginia, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,189 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,841 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 8 | #881 | 0.4× |
| California | 7 | #2,588 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,334 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,302 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 6 | #766 | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #897 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,620 | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,118 | 0.2× |
Where Halima is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Halima is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Halima with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,458 babies since 1880, Halima is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 102 of their 155 babies (66%), again the most given.
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 Halima
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 Halima and names like it
- Compare Halima and HalimahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHalima peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Halima since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Halima: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Halima.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Halima alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.