Zuleyma
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-LAY-mah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,553 for girls
Zuleyma is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “peaceful”. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).
What does Zuleyma mean?
Arabic: variant of Zulema, the Spanish form of Arabic Sulayma
“peaceful”
A spelling of Zulema, a Spanish name taken from the Arabic Sulayma.
Is Zuleyma a girl's or a boy's name?
Zuleyma is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zuleyma in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,553rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 73,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Zuleyma, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 1990, with 49 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.
Half of all the girls named Zuleyma in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zuleyma in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,553 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,959 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,951 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,794 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,450 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,161 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,707 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,676 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,267 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,428 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,232 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,763 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,317 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,644 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,213 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,633 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,224 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,448 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,280 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,785 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,676 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,139 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,363 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,459 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,675 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,773 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
Names like Zuleyma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahara, Safa, Aaliyah, Zainab, Amira, Samira, Zahira, Zaira, Zamira, Safiya, Salma, Zaniyah
Names related to Zuleyma
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from 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, “Zuleyma: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zuleyma, updated 20 October 2026.