Naema
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: naampy, 2015
/naema/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Naema is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 49th most common given name.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 280as Naima
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 700as Naima
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 Naema 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380,000 named Najma, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Naima in MA Morocco, ES Spain, DZ Algeria and 2 more, Najma in IN India, PK Pakistan and Nazma in BD Bangladesh.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Naema 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #656 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 87 | Najma | 75 |
| BD Bangladesh | #49 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Nazma | 57 |
| MA Morocco | #50 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 280 | listed | Naima | 78 |
| DZ Algeria | #129 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 697 | — | Naima | 45 |
| PK Pakistan | #146 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Najma | 55 |
| TZ Tanzania | #343 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Naima | 24 |
| TN Tunisia | #193 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 984 | 1.6K | Naima | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,873as Naima | 1 in 5.1K | 9.9K | Naima | 45 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | Naema | 31 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #45,760 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #25,741 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1990 | 11 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1984 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Naema?
- In Swedish /naema/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Naema a male or female name?
- Naema is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Naema have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 384 thousand people named Najma in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Naema?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,873 people named Naima, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Naema compared with other names?
- In India, Naema is the 656th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naemaThe 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, “Naema” — the 656th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.