Chaïma
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chaïma is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 11K◐
- ESSpain1 in 54K
- YTMayotte1 in 436
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.0K ●
- Sources
- 184 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 9 countries
18K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chaima in FR France, TN Tunisia, ES Spain and 10 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #916 | 6,160 | 15K rec. | 1 in 11K | 6.2K | Chaima | 184 |
| ES Spain | — | 934△ | 177 rec. | 1 in 54K | 934 | Chaima | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 812△ | 78 rec. | 1 in 21K | 812 | Chaima | 16 |
| TN Tunisia | #423 | 625 | 539 rec. | — | 3.2K | Chaima | 24 |
| MA Morocco | — | 569 | 807 rec. | — | — | Chaima | 29 |
| BE Belgium | — | 535 | 460 rec. | — | 7 | Chaima | 26 |
| DZ Algeria | #743 | 497 | 504 rec. | — | listed | Chaima | 19 |
| IN India | — | 221 | 168 rec. | — | — | Chaima | 3 |
| YT Mayotte | #45 | 125 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Chaima | 1 |
| US United States | — | 54 | 53 rec. | — | — | Chaima | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 46△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 222K | 46 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 30 | — | 1 in 196K | 30 | — | — |
Roughly 6.2K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French5.1K96%
- Arabic1272%
- English521%
- German81%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 5,116 | 96% |
| Arabic | 127 | 2% |
| English | 52 | 1% |
| German | 8 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 16 |
| 1997 | 28 |
| 1998 | 18 |
| 1999 | 21 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 34 |
| 2002 | 30 |
| 2003 | 36 |
| 2004 | 29 |
| 2005 | 31 |
| 2006 | 28 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 28 |
| 2009 | 32 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 12 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2020 | 7 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 24 years between 1995–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.1K | #930 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 46 | #8,884 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 36 | #262 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2001 | 34 | #291 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2009 | 32 | #325 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2005 | 31 | #312 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 30 | #316 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2004 | 29 | #319 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2008 | 28 | #380 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2006 | 28 | #363 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 28 | #346 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2000 | 24 | #392 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chaïma?
- We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Chaïma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chaïma have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.2 thousand people bear Chaïma in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled chaima.
- How common is Chaïma compared with other names?
- In France, Chaïma is the 916th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Chaïma a male or female name?
- Chaïma 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.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chaïma” — the 916th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.