Zuleima
Girl · zoo-LAY-ma · Arabic
Zuleima is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Zuleima mean?
Arabic: Spanish variant of Zulema, linked to Arabic Zulaykha
Linked to Zulaykha (Zuleika), the name Islamic and Persian tradition gives to Potiphar's wife in the story of Joseph.
- Say it
- zoo-LAY-ma
Is Zuleima a girl's or a boy's name?
Zuleima is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zuleima in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,837among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16about 1 in 100,000 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, 16 girls in the US were named Zuleima, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1994, with 61 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.
2025 had more girls named Zuleima than any year since 2012.
Half of all the girls named Zuleima in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zuleima in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,298 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 20 | #5,994 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,938 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,004 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,644 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,830 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,656 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,060 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,511 |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,183 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,417 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,728 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,091 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,845 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,149 |
Names like Zuleima
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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