Given name · also Turkish
Halime
“the mild, gentle, patient”
Halime is a feminine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Halime goes back to Arabic حَلِيمة, meaning “the mild, gentle, patient.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Halime comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish حلیمه (Halime), from Arabic حَلِيمة (“the mild, gentle, patient”); its root is Arabic ح ل م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Halime through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 0 boys · 61 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,391 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,391 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Halime
- Halime HatunMother of Ottoman Sultan Osman I1250–1300
- Halime OguzTurkish-Danish politician (born 1970)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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