Nîmâ

surname · Latin script

Nîmâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • SESweden1 in 10K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 32K
  • FIFinland1 in 77K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,932 people, 2020

Record sources
77 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nima in US United States, SE Sweden, ES Spain.

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)
recorded in Swedish

Nima är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’välsignelse; ynnest’. Det kan också vara ett persiskt namn med oviss betydelse, möjligen ’rättvis’ eller ’halvmåne’.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • The African book of names
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nîmâ 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.

Where Nîmâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,9321 in 113K2.1KNima77
SE Sweden9791 in 10K979Nima13
DK Denmark1861 in 32K157——
FI Finland721 in 77K108—2
ES Spain671 in 747K67Nima28
IS Iceland31 in 117K3——

2,932 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nîmâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Nîmâ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Nîmâ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nima.
Where is Nîmâ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nîmâ is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nîmâ?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,932 people named Nîmâ in 2020, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.

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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, “Nîmâ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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