Shaïma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃajma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shaïma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 44th most common given name. Recorded meaning: daughter of Halima, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 4.8K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 13K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, 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 Shaima in EG Egypt, US United States, KW Kuwait and 6 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(measured from records)
daughter of Halima, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shaïma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #429 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Shaima | 8 |
| EG Egypt | #995 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Shaima | 55 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #188 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Shaima | 86 |
| YE Yemen | #601 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Shaima | 25 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Shaima | 76 |
| OM Oman | #44 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Shaima | 28 |
| US United States | — | 813 | 1 in 409K | 808 | Shaima | 117 |
| KW Kuwait | #260 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Shaima | 47 |
| BH Bahrain | #106 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Shaima | 34 |
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. 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shaïma mean, and where does it come from?
- daughter of Halima, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Shaïma?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃajma/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Shaïma a male or female name?
- Shaïma 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 Shaïma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Shaïma in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaima.
- How common is the name Shaïma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 813 people named Shaïma in 2020, about 1 in 409 thousand residents.
- How common is Shaïma compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Shaïma is the 429th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shaïma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sha%C3%AFmaThe 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, “Shaïma” — the 429th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.