Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Shayma isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shayma through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 170
- 0 boys · 170 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,906 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,906 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 346 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.
Shayma’s family of names
In English usage, Shayma has a conventional equivalent in the French form Chaïma.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shayma
- Shaimaa al-SabbaghEgyptian civil rights activist, poet1984–2015
- Shaimaa El-GammalEgyptian fencerborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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