Leema

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Leema is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 125K(measured from records)
  • BHBahrain≈1 in 139K
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 197K

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.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈480 people, est.

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Leema 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 Leema is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh≈480 est.≈1 in 339K—Leema15
PK Pakistan≈170 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Leema6
NG Nigeria≈120 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Leema8
ZA South Africa≈85 est.≈1 in 666K—Leema8
SA Saudi Arabia≈73 est.≈1 in 466K—Leema11
AE United Arab Emirates≈38 est.≈1 in 266K—Leema11
JO Jordan≈38 est.≈1 in 286K—Leema5
KW Kuwait≈15 est.≈1 in 197K—Leema6
BH Bahrain≈11 est.≈1 in 139K—Leema6
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——
GY Guyana61 in 125K6Leema1

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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Leema is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname82 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ecuador, Argentina, Spain, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Thai

    Also written Lema, Lama, ลามา, ลีมา, หล้ามา

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

Is Leema a male or female name?
Leema 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 Leema have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 480 people named Leema in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leema.
Where is Leema most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leema is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Leema?
In Denmark, the national register counted 8 people named Leema, about 1 in 734 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, “Leema”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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