Halimà
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halimà is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic حَلِيمَة (ḥalīma). The ending is irregular, so it may instead be a feminine form of حَلِيم (ḥalīm) formed within Hausa.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 352(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 784
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Halimà itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 352 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Halima in NG Nigeria, US United States, MA Morocco and 2 more, Halimah in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and Халима in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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 Arabic حَلِيمَة (ḥalīma). The ending is irregular, so it may instead be a feminine form of حَلِيم (ḥalīm) formed within Hausa.
Sources 5
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Halimà 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 | #110 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 352 | 4 | Halima | 29 |
| NG Nigeria | #324 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Halima | 84 |
| MA Morocco | #156 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 784 | — | Halima | 86 |
| BD Bangladesh | #116 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | listed | Halima | 55 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Halimah | 120 |
| MY Malaysia | #261 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 2.5K | Halimah | 45 |
| US United States | — | 4,420 | 1 in 75K | 13K | Halima | 228 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #409 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Халима | 11 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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 Halimà mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic حَلِيمَة (ḥalīma). The ending is irregular, so it may instead be a feminine form of حَلِيم (ḥalīm) formed within Hausa. Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Halimà a male or female name?
- Halimà 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 Halimà have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 thousand people named Halimà in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halima.
- How common is the name Halimà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,420 people named Halimà in 2020, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
- How common is Halimà compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Halimà is the 110th 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/halim%C3%A0The 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, “Halimà” — the 110th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.