Shamima

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Languages●

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◐

Shamima is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name40 records spelled Shamima6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Tajikistan, India, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Uzbek

  Also written Шамима

39 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●

Shamima 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 Arabic, sweet smell, flavour

  as a name·A Dictionary of 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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 years between 1900–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Shamima Shaikhb. 1960ZASouth African feminist (1960–1998)
• Shamima Sultana Mitab. 1963BDbadminton player
• Shamima Begumb. 1999GBBritish born teenager who left the UK to join ISIL and later attempted to come back
• Shamim Nambasab. 1999UGnot in their usual nameUgandan Politician
• Shamima AliFJFijian political activist of Indian descent
• Shamima MuslimGHGhanaian broadcast journalist and gender advocate

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 204 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shamima?

We estimate roughly 969 people bear Shamima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Shamima have the most bearers?

Shamima is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled shamima.

How common is Shamima compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Shamima is the 39th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Shamima a male or female name?

Shamima 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 Shamima mean?

Recorded meaning: 2 (shameema): sweet smell.'*”