Rima

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rima is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A cleft or gap between two symmetrical parts, particularly between the vocal folds.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 239◐
  • RURussia1 in 1.3K
  • GEGeorgia1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈14K ●

across 7 countries

#889 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
256 ●

703K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

Georgia

Spellings & scripts●

RimaLatin · English●345K records
РиммаCyrillic · Russian●765K records
ᲠიმაGeorgian · Georgian●5.5K records
রিমBengali · Bangla●70 records
รมะThai · Thai●36 records
ሪማEthiopic · Amharic●2 records
ΡίμαGreek · Greek●0 records
ՌիմաArmenian · Armenian●0 records

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Римма in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 4 more, Reema in IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, FR France and 3 more, Rymma in PL Poland and Rimma in ES Spain.

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●

A cleft or gap between two symmetrical parts, particularly between the vocal folds.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rima is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#141,187,8304.2K rec.—listedRima49
RU Russia#107805,510209K rec.—#71Римма147
IN India#511708,928260K rec.—101Reema160
UA Ukraine#161101,713100K rec.——Римма46
SY Syria#23115,64616K rec.——Rima26
TR Türkiye—8,6802.8K rec.——Римма16
KG Kyrgyzstan#6005,7302K rec.——Римма16
SA Saudi Arabia#2085,0141.4K rec.—listedReema112
US United States—4,17154K rec.1 in 80K4.2KRima256
AU Australia—4,1334.4K rec.—2Rima94
GB United Kingdom—4,1133.5K rec.—listedRima78
GE Georgia#2602,5613.5K rec.1 in 1.6K2.6KRima27

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English345K36%
  • Bangla328K34%
  • Hindi168K17%
  • Indonesian30K3%
  • Arabic24K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English344,55136%
Bangla328,48834%
Hindi167,61017%
Indonesian29,5723%
Arabic23,5032%

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◐

Rima is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name35K records spelled Rima9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Rima, Rïma, Řịmă, Ŕĭmã, Rįma

  • Spanish given name8.2K records spelled Rima21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Philippines

    Also written Rïmä, Ŕįmā, Rímā, Rimà, Ŗìmà

  • Uzbek given name7.1K records spelled Rima13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Uzbek, Turkish, Kazakh

    Also written Рима, Řimä, Rîmâ, Рйма

  • Danish given name1.8K records spelled Rima13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Rïmä, Rįmã, Rimâ, Rïmâ, Rïmã

  • a separate given name1.8K records spelled Rima6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Lebanon

    Also written Ṛima, Rimá, Rīmā, Říma, Rīma

45 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●

Rima is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Greičiausiai sietina su Rimas (žr.). Nors įmanoma kilmė ir iš krikšto vardo Rima, plg. brus. Римма mase. (M. Бирыла, 1966, it. 140), rus. Римма mase. (H. Петровский, 1966, c. 189)

    as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Arabic, white gazelle, antelope

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Swedish, Rima är ett arabiskt namn med samma betydelse som → Reem.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, weibl. Vom. litauischer Herkunft (zu lit. rimti »ruhig sein«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Antílope blanco

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

0102030401940196019802000202038 · 2015

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Rima in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1927–2025
Yearrecords
19275
19295
19305
19315
19335
19345
19357
19366
19376
19386
19396
19405
19416
194311
19446
194511
194610
19476
194810
19516
19529
195310
195413
19559
19566
195811
195921
196020
196113
196212
196312
196414
196524
196624
196717
196816
196925
197022
197121
197214
197317
197416
197513
197619
197718
197822
197923
198022
198122
198232
198320
198424
198528
198619
198729
198827
198928
199037
199118
199227
199321
199427
199532
199620
199715
199823
199923
200016
200121
200219
200320
200414
200513
200615
200714
200812
20099
201015
201123
201229
201318
201424
201538
201626
201738
201838
201932
202023
202124
202226
202319
202425
202536

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 93 years between 1927–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Rima Horton, b. 1947Reema Lagoo, b. 1958Reema Kagti, b. 1972Reema Bint Bandar Al Saud, b. 1975Rima Abdul Malak, b. 1979Reema Sen, b. 1981Rima Fakih, b. 1985Rima Zeidan, b. 1990Rima Hassan, b. 1992Rima Nishizaki, b. 1993

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 87 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Rima
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.2K#4,455
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1K#1,664
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020907—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024810#1,781
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—698#2,032
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020593#39,947
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010558#39,419
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000538#38,644
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—432#491
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—399#5,341
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—337#2,791
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—209#977

Reference works 6

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 498 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rima?
We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Rima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Rima have the most bearers?
Rima is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled rima.
How common is Rima compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Rima is the 14th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Rima a male or female name?
Rima 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 Rima mean?
Recorded meaning: A cleft or gap between two symmetrical parts, particularly between the vocal folds.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Rima” — the 14th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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