Shimaa
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shimaa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- EGEgypt1 in 660◐
- SDSudan1 in 5.4K
- KWKuwait1 in 7.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈30 ●
- Sources
- 98 ●
- 1 in 510K ◐
across 2 countries
18K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Shima'A in YE Yemen.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #66 | 59,483 | 15K rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 98 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 964 | 170 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 42 |
| US United States | — | 555 | 326 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 73 |
| SY Syria | — | 428 | 436 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 11 |
| IN India | — | 423 | 430 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 6 |
| KW Kuwait | #517 | 292 | 142 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 16 |
| IL Israel | — | 256 | 260 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 186 | 115 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 30 |
| SD Sudan | #176 | 180 | 61 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 15 |
| QA Qatar | #880 | 138 | 41 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 17 |
| DE Germany | — | 53 | 53 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | 49 | 46 rec. | — | — | Shimaa | 14 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic62K97%
- Spanish3951%
- English3061%
- Pashto881%
- French841%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 61,659 | 97% |
| Spanish | 395 | 1% |
| English | 306 | 1% |
| Pashto | 88 | 1% |
| French | 84 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 17 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 25 |
| 2018 | 25 |
| 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 24 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2011–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Shimaa Seifb. 1987EGEgyptian actress
- Shimaa Qasimb. 1996IQmodel
- Shimaa AbuZeidBEresearcher
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #13,187 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #24,392 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 14 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #7,931 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #52,039 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #51,372 |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shimaa?
- We estimate roughly 30 people bear Shimaa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shimaa have the most bearers?
- Shimaa is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled shimaa.
- How common is Shimaa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Shimaa is the 66th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Shimaa a male or female name?
- Shimaa 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, “Shimaa” — the 66th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.