Shaima
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shaima is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt. In Oman it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: daughter of Halima, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad.
- KWKuwait1 in 1.3K◐
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 4.7K
- EGEgypt1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.7K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 130 ●
- 1 in 46K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
14K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Шайма in RU Russia and Shaïma in TN Tunisia.
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●
daughter of Halima, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | 3,003 | 693 rec. | — | listed | Shaima | 50 |
| KW Kuwait | #135 | 1,818 | 498 rec. | — | — | Shaima | 40 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #235 | 1,595 | 897 rec. | — | — | Shaima | 82 |
| FR France | — | 1,395 | 3.5K rec. | 1 in 49K | 1.9K | Shaima | 130 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 1,135 | 269 rec. | — | listed | Shaima | 73 |
| US United States | — | 808 | 2.4K rec. | 1 in 412K | 808 | Shaima | 95 |
| PH Philippines | — | 522 | 268 rec. | — | — | Shaima | 17 |
| RU Russia | — | 507 | 348 rec. | — | — | Шайма | 53 |
| OM Oman | #62 | 457 | 426 rec. | — | — | Shaima | 27 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 452 | 354 rec. | — | — | Shaima | 18 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 441 | 482 rec. | — | — | Shaima | 9 |
| IN India | — | 406 | 352 rec. | — | 16 | Shaima | 35 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French14K33%
- Arabic9.9K24%
- Hindi6.1K15%
- English2.5K6%
- Bangla1.3K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 13,888 | 33% |
| Arabic | 9,931 | 24% |
| Hindi | 6,102 | 15% |
| English | 2,548 | 6% |
| Bangla | 1,272 | 3% |
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●
Shaima 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, daughter of Halima, the wet nurse of Muhammad (s).'*7
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, astute
as a nameAfrican 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 16 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Shaimaa El-Gammalb. 1980EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian fencer
- Shaimaa AIi Yasirb. 1981KWnot in their usual nameIranian actress
- Shaimaa Sabaghb. 1984EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian civil rights activist, poet
- Shaima Mohamed Almarzooqib. 1988AEWriter, novelist, and children's stories author
- Jory Bakrb. 1988EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress and presenter and model
- Shima Babaeib. 1995IRnot in their usual nameIranian activist
- Chaimae Abdelazizb. 1996MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan singer
- Shaimaa Atef Mohamedb. 2004EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian freestyle wrestler
- Shaimaa SadekEGnot in their usual nameEgyptian journalist
- Shaimaa KhalilGBnot in their usual nameEgyptian-British journalist
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 39 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2018 | 1.9K | #2,435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 808 | #14,496 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 236 | #4,234 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 221 | #4,878 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 192 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 181 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 168 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 158 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 145 | #11,696 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 145 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 138 | #5,414 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 136 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 166 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shaima?
- We estimate roughly 2.7 thousand people bear Shaima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shaima have the most bearers?
- Shaima is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled shaima.
- How common is Shaima compared with other names?
- In Oman, Shaima is the 62nd most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.
- Is Shaima a male or female name?
- Shaima 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 Shaima mean?
- Recorded meaning: daughter of Halima, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shaima” — the 62nd most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.