Naima
Naima was given to 94 girls in 2025, #2,033 among girls’ names; 4,757 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,700 Americans named Naima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Naima mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Naima is “a female given name”
Variant of Naimi, from Naemi, the equivalent of English Naomi in older versions of the Finnish Bible.
/ˈnɑi̯mɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Naima?
#2,033 among girls’ names, 2025
Naima fell from #1,474 in 2015 to #2,033 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 87.4 to 58.5 per million.
305 babies in 2007, the peak
Naima peaked in 2007, when 305 girls were given it, #904 among girls’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,033 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,191 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 102 | #1,940 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,168 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,893 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,654 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,529 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 168 | #1,376 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 152 | #1,502 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 156 | #1,474 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 188 | #1,280 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 146 | #1,513 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,355 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 233 | #1,060 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 202 | #1,202 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 247 | #1,051 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 287 | #945 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 305 | #904 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 299 | #891 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 283 | #892 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,154 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,708 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,124 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,180 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,884 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,417 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,613 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,866 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,600 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,178 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,968 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,615 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,436 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,456 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,318 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,765 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,936 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,977 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,293 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,118 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,566 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,903 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,731 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,113 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,363 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,987 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,345 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,736 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,586 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,607 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,181 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,330 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naima, and how old are they?
4,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,757 Americans ever recorded as Naima. The median Naima alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 5,290 people named Naima (5,272 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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 | 312 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 387 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,660 |
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 Naima born?
The states with the most babies named Naima are Texas, California and New York, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,160 | 0.6× |
| California | 9 | #2,227 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9 | #1,484 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,821 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,566 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,717 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,319 | 0.7× |
Where Naima is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naima is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.9 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 Naima 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 205,889 babies since 1880, Naima is the second most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 5,031 babies (1.9%), the third 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 Naima
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 Naima and names like it
- Compare Naima and NaomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNaima peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naima since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Naima: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Naima.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Naima alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.