Asima

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Asma in BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan, US United States and 18 more, Асма in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Asama in IN India and อัสมา in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Asima is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name1.3K records spelled Asima33 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Croatia, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Uzbek

  Also written Асима, Асіма, Ашима, Ashima, Асйма

• Turkish given name1.2K records spelled Asima4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Iraq, Azerbaijan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Aşima

• a separate given name625 records spelled Asima3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia, Pakistan

  Also written Asīma, Āśimā

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Asima is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, safe, chaste, protector, guardian; feminine of Asim

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, protector, guardian; fem. of Asim. See Asim (m.)

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Asima Chatterjeeb. 1917INIndian chemist (1917–2006)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 261 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Asima?

We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Asima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Asima have the most bearers?

Asima is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled asma.

How common is Asima compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Asima is the 15th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Asima a male or female name?

Asima is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Asima mean?

Recorded meaning: safe, chaste, protector, guardian; feminine of Asim