Umaamah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- oo-MAH-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Umaamah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Umaamah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Umamah
Umamah bint Zaynab, a granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad, is remembered for being carried by him during prayer.
Meaning borrowed from Umamah.
Is Umaamah a girl's or a boy's name?
Umaamah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Umaamah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Umaamah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 5 girls.
2025 had more girls named Umaamah than any year since 2016.
In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were given Umaamah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,110, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Umaamah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
Names like Umaamah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Umaymah, Safa, Ruqayyah, Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Zainab, Azeemah, Aaminah, Abeeha, Aakifah, Aafiyah
Other spellings of Umaamah
Umamah, Umama
Names related to Umaamah
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) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Umaamah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/umaamah, updated 20 October 2026.