Given name & surname
Saima
“a fasting woman”
Saima is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “a fasting woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “a fasting woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1896. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Saima through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 669
- 0 boys · 669 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,759 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +19%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,759 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 21 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,811 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Saima’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Saima has a diminutive in SAIMI. Saima has a related form in Saimah. Saima has a related form in Saimma.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Saima
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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