Umaimah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- oo-MY-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Umaimah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “little mother”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Umaimah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Umaima; diminutive of umm, mother
“little mother”
Umaymah bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad.
Meaning borrowed from Umaima.
Is Umaimah a girl's or a boy's name?
Umaimah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Umaimah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,344th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Umaimah, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 29 girls.
Half of all the girls named Umaimah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Umaimah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #2,344 for this spelling alone.
- Umaima 21
- Umaimah 12
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Umaimah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 10 | #2,615 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 15 | #2,000 |
| 2017 | 29 | #1,248 |
| 2016 | 20 | #1,653 |
| 2015 | 12 | #2,328 |
| 2014 | 18 | #1,722 |
| 2013 | 20 | #1,617 |
| 2012 | 11 | #2,463 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,393 |
| 2010 | 13 | #2,103 |
| 2009 | 14 | #1,957 |
| 2008 | 12 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 12 | #2,083 |
| 2006 | 19 | #1,418 |
| 2005 | 15 | #1,608 |
| 2004 | 13 | #1,722 |
| 2003 | 14 | #1,564 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 11 | #1,723 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 6 | #2,559 |
| 1998 | 3 | #4,026 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #2,815 |
Names like Umaimah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Nusaybah, Zainab, Sumayyah, Umaymah, Umamah, Ruqayyah, Aaminah, Safiya, Hafsa, Ayah
Other spellings of Umaimah
Names related to Umaimah
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, “Umaimah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/umaimah, updated 20 October 2026.