Umaima
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- oo-MY-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,512 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Umaima is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “little mother”. In 2025 it ranked 1,512th for girls in the UK (21 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Umaima mean?
Arabic: diminutive of umm, mother
“little mother”
Umaymah bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Umaima a girl's or a boy's name?
Umaima is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Umaima in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,512th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21 about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the UK were named Umaima, making it the 1,512th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,213th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 43 girls.
Half of all the girls named Umaima in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Umaima or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #1,512 for this spelling alone.
- Umaima 21
- Umaimah 12
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,454th in England and Wales.
Umaima in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #1,512 |
| 2024 | 17 | #1,803 |
| 2023 | 28 | #1,247 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2020 | 29 | #1,213 |
| 2019 | 25 | #1,368 |
| 2018 | 43 | #923 |
| 2017 | 39 | #1,009 |
| 2016 | 35 | #1,073 |
| 2015 | 34 | #1,108 |
| 2014 | 25 | #1,377 |
| 2013 | 21 | #1,559 |
| 2012 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2011 | 12 | #2,265 |
| 2010 | 12 | #2,234 |
| 2009 | 14 | #1,957 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 13 | #1,964 |
| 2006 | 7 | #2,940 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Umaima in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Umaima, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Umaima in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Umaima in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
Names like Umaima
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Nusaybah, Rahma, Rumaysa, Hiba, Safiya, Ruqayyah, Safaa, Zainab, Habiba
Other spellings of Umaima
Names related to Umaima
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Umaima: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/umaima, updated 20 October 2026.