Şima
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şima is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,981 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: From the Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “bent upwards”). Şima is also written Сима in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 7.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 17K
- MDMoldova1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,981 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Şima in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sima in TR Türkiye, US United States, AF Afghanistan.
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”).
Cited for this meaning 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 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Şima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,981 | 1 in 84K | 3.9K | Sima | 50 |
| SE Sweden | — | 601 | 1 in 17K | 601 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | — | 594 | 1 in 7.1K | 594 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Sima | 39 |
| AF Afghanistan | #272 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Sima | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 169 | 1 in 35K | 165 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 122 | 1 in 28K | 122 | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 28 | 1 in 67K | 29 | — | 1 |
3,981 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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şima 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.
- Is Şima a male or female name?
- Şima 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Şima?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Şima, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sima. After it come Sweden, Croatia, Türkiye and Afghanistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Şima most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şima is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 7.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Şima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,981 people named Şima in 2020, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Şima compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Şima is the 272nd most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Şima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FimaThe 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, “Şima” — ranked 4612th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.