Saima — #15312 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Saima

The Social Security Administration has registered 660 babies named Saima between 1896 and 2024, spanning 129 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Saima currently holds the #15312 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Saima performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Saima shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Saima in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Saima 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 660 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.