Shaima
Shaima was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,674 among girls’ names; 277 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaima?
#14,674 among girls’ names, 2025
Shaima fell from #7,556 in 2015 to #14,674 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.7 per million.
17 babies in 2016, the peak
Shaima peaked in 2016, when 17 girls were given it, #7,186 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,674 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,205 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,101 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,446 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,255 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,361 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,295 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,224 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,186 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,556 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #10,046 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,875 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,112 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,166 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,357 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,489 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,399 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,453 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,276 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,247 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,792 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,303 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,991 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,860 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,692 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,952 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,627 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,111 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,799 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaima, and how old are they?
An estimated 274 Americans named Shaima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 813 people named Shaima (808 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,852 babies since 1880, Shaima is the fifth most given (4.7% of them).
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 Shaima
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 Shaima and names like it
- Compare Shaima and ShamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sShaima peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaima since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Shaima.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaima alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.