Seema
Seema reached its high-water mark in 1981 at number 1,912, and has been recorded 1,192 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 1,200 Seemas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Seema
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,192
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 40
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 1,912th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,107th
- First recorded
- 1966
How old the living Seemas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,192 babies given the name since 1966, about 1,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Seemas
- Seema Biswas (born 1965)Indian actress
- Seema Antil (born 1983)Indian discus thrower
- Seema Rao (born 1970)Indian commando trainer
- Seema Malhotra (born 1972)British politician
- Seema Kaushik Mehta (born 1976)Karatha expert in India
- Seema Bhargav (born 1962)Indian actress
- Seema (born 1957)Indian actress
- Seema Bisla (born 1992)Indian amateur wrestler
People named Seema with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Seema is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Seema is most concentrated in New York (4.2×), California (3.6×), Illinois (2.6×), Texas (1.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular girls’ names the year Seema peaked:
Seema elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Seema | 154 | 1,168th |
| Scotland girls | Seema | 3 | 565th |
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.
Seema 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Seema | 13 | 14 |
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.
Related names
Seema against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.