Rim
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- REEM
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Rim is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “white gazelle”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Rim mean?
Arabic: Arabic rim 'white gazelle'; also found as a Korean name
“white gazelle”
Rim is the Arabic word for a white antelope or gazelle, often a symbol of beauty in Arabic poetry.
Is Rim a girl's or a boy's name?
Rim is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rim in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2022, with 6 girls.
Rim in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
How popular is Rim 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 Rim, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2000, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Rim in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 143 girls in the US were given Rim or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,321, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
- Reem 138
- Rim 5
Rim in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Rim
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zainab Rahma Aaliyah Ruqayyah Reem Hafsa Ayah Hiba Sumayyah Nusaybah Safaa
Other spellings of Rim
Names related to Rim
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, “Rim: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rim, updated 20 October 2026.