Halima

What Halima means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Halima yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #335 vs #1,902 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Halima?

US: Rising: up from #2471 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #395 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 121 girls got the name (#1681 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 15,758 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,963 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MD (0.3 per 1,000 girls), VA (0.24 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.23 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Halima is #1902 in the US and #335 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Halima were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Haleema21 US · 54 E&W
• Halimah23 US · 27 E&W
• Halema0 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Halima

Girls

• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies

For a brother

• Zahir#738Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 7 babies
• Zayd#632Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #181 vs #632 in 2025
• Zaid#675Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 5 babies
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Halima’s. Rank is US 2025.