Naima

Where Naima comes from

Naima hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    Naima Wifstrand born
    Swedish actress
  2. 1929
    Naima Akef born
    Egyptian belly dancer, film actress, acrobat, and performer
  3. 1969
    First appearance
    #5,057 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2006
    Peak, #890
    299 babies named Naima — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,509.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Naima Wifstrand · Swedish actress, 1890–1968
  • Naima Akef · Egyptian belly dancer, film actress, acrobat, and performer, 1929–1966
  • Naima Mora · American fashion model, born 1984
  • Naima Sahlbom · Swedish chemist and peace activist, 1871–1957
  • Naima Elmcherqui · Moroccan actress, 1943–2024

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.