Néema
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Néema is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: to be well off.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 118(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 221K
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 118 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Neema in TZ Tanzania, US United States, KE Kenya and 3 more.
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)
to be well off.
Sources 3
- African Names
- Nordic Names
- The book of African names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Néema 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #133 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 118 | 36 | Neema | 35 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Neema | 1 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Neema | 15 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 2 | Neema | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,504 | 1 in 221K | 1.2K | Neema | 194 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Neema | 25 |
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: Heuristic parse of census.name; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Néema mean, and where does it come from?
- to be well off. Recorded by African Names and Nordic Names and 1 other source.
- Is Néema a male or female name?
- Néema 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 Néema have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 498 thousand people named Néema in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neema.
- How common is the name Néema?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,504 people named Néema in 2020, about 1 in 221 thousand residents.
- How common is Néema compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Néema is the 133rd most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9emaThe 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, “Néema” — the 133rd most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.