Shaimaa
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shaimaa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script.
- EGEgypt1 in 2.5K◐
- SYSyria1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 746K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈736 ●
- Sources
- 108 ●
- 1 in 59K ◐
across 7 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Shaima'A in YE Yemen, IL Israel, JO Jordan and Shaïmaa in MA Morocco.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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 | #349 | 15,822 | 6.7K rec. | — | listed | Shaimaa | 108 |
| SY Syria | — | 1,397 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 18 |
| KW Kuwait | #239 | 954 | 701 rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 31 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 828 | 216 rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 59 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 726 | 443 rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 23 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 658 | 688 rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 8 |
| US United States | — | 446 | 1K rec. | 1 in 746K | 446 | Shaimaa | 96 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 311 | 238 rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 217 | 125 rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 28 |
| SE Sweden | — | 173△ | 41 rec. | 1 in 59K | 173 | — | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | 147 | 124 rec. | — | 1 | Shaimaa | 39 |
| QA Qatar | #934 | 128 | 65 rec. | — | — | Shaimaa | 27 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic21K84%
- English6653%
- French4862%
- Spanish3441%
- German2211%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 21,359 | 84% |
| English | 665 | 3% |
| French | 486 | 2% |
| Spanish | 344 | 1% |
| German | 221 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 21 |
| 2000 | 25 |
| 2001 | 29 |
| 2002 | 31 |
| 2003 | 35 |
| 2004 | 38 |
| 2005 | 42 |
| 2006 | 49 |
| 2007 | 60 |
| 2008 | 68 |
| 2009 | 70 |
| 2010 | 68 |
| 2011 | 72 |
| 2012 | 77 |
| 2013 | 80 |
| 2014 | 94 |
| 2015 | 115 |
| 2016 | 134 |
| 2017 | 148 |
| 2018 | 160 |
| 2019 | 166 |
| 2020 | 172 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. 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. 1980EGEgyptian fencer
- Shaimaa AIi Yasirb. 1981KWIranian actress
- Shaimaa Sabaghb. 1984EGEgyptian civil rights activist, poet
- Shaima Mohamed Almarzooqib. 1988AEnot in their usual nameWriter, 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. 2004EGEgyptian freestyle wrestler
- Shaimaa SadekEGEgyptian journalist
- Shaimaa KhalilGBEgyptian-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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 446 | #22,349 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 173 | #5,791 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 172 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 166 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 160 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 148 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 134 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 115 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 106 | #7,451 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 94 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 77 | — |
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 · 48 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shaimaa?
- We estimate roughly 736 people bear Shaimaa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shaimaa have the most bearers?
- Shaimaa is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled shaimaa.
- How common is Shaimaa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Shaimaa is the 349th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Shaimaa a male or female name?
- Shaimaa 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, “Shaimaa” — the 349th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.