Naeema — girls' name
304 babies named Naeema in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Naeema was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Naeema in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Naeema
The Social Security Administration has registered 304 babies named Naeema between 1979 and 2023, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Naeema currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Naeema performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Naeema shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Naeema in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Naeema 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 304 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.
Naeema at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Naeema popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1979
- Peak year (2020)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
304 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 18 births in a single year.
Naeema by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 103 births that decade — 34% of Naeema's all-time total
Naeema decade highlights
- Peak decade 103 births
- Runner-up 72 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Naeema's strongest decade
103 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Naeema by state
Where Naeema concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 3.3% |
10 of 304 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.3% 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, 1979–2023 (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.