Fahima
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- fa-HEE-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Fahima is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “intelligent, understanding”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Fahima mean?
Arabic: feminine of Fahim
“intelligent, understanding”
From the Arabic root fahima, 'to understand'.
Is Fahima a girl's or a boy's name?
Fahima is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fahima in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Fahima, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 55 girls.
2025 had more girls named Fahima than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Fahima in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2008. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Fahima in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2011 | 15 | #1,917 |
| 2010 | 19 | #1,635 |
| 2009 | 22 | #1,411 |
| 2008 | 21 | #1,443 |
| 2007 | 19 | #1,477 |
| 2006 | 25 | #1,153 |
| 2005 | 37 | #825 |
| 2004 | 25 | #1,048 |
| 2003 | 36 | #804 |
| 2002 | 55 | #588 |
| 2001 | 43 | #658 |
| 2000 | 34 | #755 |
| 1999 | 36 | #722 |
| 1998 | 41 | #668 |
| 1997 | 45 | #632 |
| 1996 | 33 | #755 |
How popular is Fahima in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Fahima, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2014, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Fahima in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fahima in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
Names like Fahima
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Faiza Abeeha Hafsa Aaliyah Hiba Rahma Habiba Fatiha Halima Sumayyah Safiya
Names related to Fahima
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fahima: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fahima, updated 20 October 2026.