Nima

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Nima boys named Nima

Girls and boys called Nima

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 369 girls and 1,052 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 8 to 18.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

1,421

Estimated living today

1,400

Median age today

27

Peak year

1990

Best rank

1,870th

Rank in 2025

5,208th

First recorded

1921

Girls / boys

369 / 1,052

How old the living Nimas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,421 babies given the name since 1921, about 1,400 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Nimas

• Nima Yushij (1895–1960)Iranian poet
• Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972)American-Canadian physicist
• Nima Nakisa (born 1975)Iranian footballer

People named Nima with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Nima is most common

• CA421
• TX10
• MD7
• NY5

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nima is most concentrated in California (9.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Nima peaked:

• Michael
• Christopher
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Daniel
• David

All the names of 1990

Nima elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Nima: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Nima is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.02% of children were given it – 35 of them.

Nima: rank by region

In 2023, Nima was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Nima by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Nima among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.