Chaima
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chaima 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:
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
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●
- French52K65%
- Arabic11K14%
- English4.8K6%
- Spanish3.4K4%
- Dutch1.7K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 51,590 | 65% |
| Arabic | 10,791 | 14% |
| English | 4,787 | 6% |
| Spanish | 3,434 | 4% |
| Dutch | 1,688 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Chaima is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, of the Chaima people
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 17 |
| 1998 | 29 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 25 years between 1995–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Chaima Issab. 1979TNTunisian poet, writer, journalist and human rights activist
- Chaima Trabelsib. 1982TNTunisian athlete
- Shayma Helalib. 1985TNnot in their usual nameTunisian singer and actress
- Chaima Abbassib. 1993TNTunisian association football player
- Chaymaa Mourtajib. 1995MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan footballer and futsal player
- Chaima Ben Mohamedb. 1997TNTunisian association football player
- Chaima Khammarb. 1999DETunisian association football player
- Chaimae Eddinarib. 1999MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan judoka
- Chaima Rahmounib. 2001TNTunisian weightlifter
- Chaima Toumib. 2003TNTunisian taekwondo athlete
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●
Attested in 32 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 6.2K | #2,538 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 2000 | 3.2K | #1 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 934 | #2,986 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 857 | #1,562 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 812 | #1,476 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 798 | #2,402 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 100 | #7,734 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 71 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46 | #14,428 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 30 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 30 | #3,773 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 30 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 100 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chaima?
- We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Chaima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chaima have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.2 thousand people bear Chaima in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled chaima.
- How common is Chaima compared with other names?
- In France, Chaima is the 916th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Chaima a male or female name?
- Chaima 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaimaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Chaima” — the 916th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.