Šima
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʂima/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Šima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”).
- CZCzechia1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 65K
- SKSlovakia1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
2,801 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sima in US United States, IN India, SK Slovakia and 1 more and Šíma in CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”).
Sources 7
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Russian Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šima counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #934 | 2,801 | 1 in 3.8K | 2.8K | Šíma | 69 |
| US United States | — | 942 | 1 in 353K | 3.9K | Sima | 26 |
| ES Spain | — | 765 | 1 in 65K | 765 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 170 | 1 in 225K | 96 | Sima | 24 |
| IN India | — | 70 | 1 in 19M | 196 | Sima | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 55 | 1 in 101K | 128 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | 55 | 1 in 99K | 55 | Sima | 25 |
| NO Norway | — | 52 | 1 in 105K | 598 | — | 1 |
2,801 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Šima 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 yag, water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shima Sakonb. 1540JPnot in their usual namesamurai (1540-1600)
- Shima Yoshitakeb. 1822JPnot in their usual namesamurai (1822-1874)
- Shima Kakokub. 1827JPnot in their usual nameJapanese photographer (1827–1870)
- Koji Shimab. 1901JPnot in their usual nameJapanese film director, screenwriter, and actor (1901-1986)
- Ushio Shimab. 1931JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor and seiyū
- Yoshinori Shimab. 1955JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actor
- Seiko Nodab. 1960JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician
- Etsuo Shimab. 1961JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor
- Erika Shimab. 1970JPnot in their usual nameJapanese seiyū
- Ryōka Shimab. 1972JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šima mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”). Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names and Russian Names and 5 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Šima?
- A machine transcription gives /ʂima/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Šima a male or female name?
- Šima 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.
- In which country does Šima have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Šima, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šíma.
- Where is Šima most common?
- Šima is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Šima?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,801 people named Šima, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Šima compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Šima is the 934th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Šima?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1imaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Šima” — the 934th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.