Shayma
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SHAY-mah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Shayma is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “one with a beauty mark”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Shayma mean?
Arabic: from Arabic Shayma' (Shaymaa), a feminine name
“one with a beauty mark”
Ash-Shayma bint al-Harith was the foster-sister of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Shayma a girl's or a boy's name?
Shayma 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 Shayma in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 22 girls.
Half of all the girls named Shayma in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shayma in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 22 | #1,390 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 12 | #1,987 |
| 2005 | 11 | #2,061 |
| 2004 | 12 | #1,812 |
| 2003 | 9 | #2,109 |
| 2002 | 18 | #1,225 |
| 2001 | 9 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 8 | #2,097 |
| 1999 | 8 | #2,089 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #2,073 |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
How popular is Shayma 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 Shayma, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2006, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had more girls named Shayma than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Shayma in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shayma in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
Names like Shayma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hiba Hafsa Salma Safaa Rahma Zainab Saba Huda Aaliyah Faiza Sumayyah
Names related to Shayma
Sama Sham Shaima Shama Shamiah Shamima Samya Shamya Shamiyah Shamiya
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, “Shayma: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shayma, updated 20 October 2026.