Umaymah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- oo-MAY-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,186 for girls
Umaymah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “little mother”. In 2025 it ranked 1,186th for girls in the UK (29 babies).
What does Umaymah mean?
Arabic: diminutive of umm, mother
“little mother”
Umaymah bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Umaymah a girl's or a boy's name?
Umaymah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 29 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Umaymah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,186th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 9,600 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were named Umaymah, making it the 1,186th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,431st. Its busiest year was 2013, with 33 girls.
2025 had more girls named Umaymah than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Umaymah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 38 girls in the UK were given Umaymah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #882, up from #1,186 for this spelling alone.
- Umaymah 29
- Umayma 9
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,133rd in England and Wales.
Umaymah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #1,186 |
| 2024 | 20 | #1,592 |
| 2023 | 22 | #1,497 |
| 2022 | 18 | #1,730 |
| 2021 | 21 | #1,553 |
| 2020 | 23 | #1,431 |
| 2019 | 16 | #1,871 |
| 2018 | 19 | #1,678 |
| 2017 | 29 | #1,248 |
| 2016 | 20 | #1,653 |
| 2015 | 25 | #1,389 |
| 2014 | 25 | #1,377 |
| 2013 | 33 | #1,142 |
| 2012 | 25 | #1,384 |
| 2011 | 27 | #1,272 |
| 2010 | 31 | #1,136 |
| 2009 | 24 | #1,330 |
| 2008 | 30 | #1,090 |
| 2007 | 15 | #1,784 |
| 2006 | 20 | #1,364 |
| 2005 | 19 | #1,332 |
| 2004 | 16 | #1,488 |
| 2003 | 10 | #1,954 |
| 2002 | 16 | #1,333 |
| 2001 | 7 | #2,341 |
| 2000 | 10 | #1,792 |
| 1999 | 10 | #1,770 |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,855 |
| 1997 | 6 | #2,552 |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
Names like Umaymah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safa, Nusaybah, Zainab, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Aaminah, Umamah, Safiya, Hafsa, Ayah, Aafiyah
Other spellings of Umaymah
Names related to Umaymah
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, “Umaymah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/umaymah, updated 20 October 2026.