Neelima
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/niɫimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neelima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 262K(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.4Kas Nilima
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 98K
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 Neelima 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 named Nilima, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nilima in BD Bangladesh, AE United Arab Emirates, QA Qatar and 2 more.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neelima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #578 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Nilima | 36 |
| US United States | — | 1,268 | 1 in 262K | 1.3K | Neelima | 200 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | Nilima | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Neelima | 6 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Neelima | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Nilima | 15 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Nilima | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Nilima | 3 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nilima Ibrahimb. 1921BDBangladeshi writer (1921-2002)
- Nilima Ghoseb. 1935INIndian athlete
- Neelima Sinhab. 1954USIndian-born American botanist
- Neelima Guptab. 1955INbotanist
- Neelima Azeemb. 1959INIndian actress
- Neelima Chowdaryb. 1977INbadminton player
- Neelima Ranib. 1983INIndian actress
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).
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,490 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 7 | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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
- How do you pronounce Neelima?
- A machine transcription gives /niɫimə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Neelima a male or female name?
- Neelima 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 Neelima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Nilima in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Neelima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,268 people named Neelima in 2020, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
- How common is Neelima compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Neelima is the 578th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Neelima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neelimaThe 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, “Neelima” — the 578th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.