Naimah

Peak · girls
1977 · 51 births
Debut · girls
42 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,660
since 1976

Naimah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Naimah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,922, 1977girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,11619
2024#6,64217
2023#5,75221
2022#5,46523
2021#6,69117
2020#4,88026
2019#4,77328
2018#3,29348
2017#5,04526
2016#4,73429
2015#5,12726
2014#3,92538
2013#4,24334
2012#3,41947
2011#2,39577
2010#2,93858
2009#2,89260
2008#2,58472
2007#2,93061
2006#3,41447
2005#2,37974
2004#5,06225
2003#4,41829
2002#4,38128
2001#4,68825
2000#5,31221
1999#3,44336
1998#3,64832
1997#5,22819
1996#4,05926
1995#3,87827
1994#5,44517
1993#4,25724
1992#3,68029
1991#6,25314
1990#4,69420
1989#5,28616
1988#5,06516
1987#5,07415
1986#3,20328
1985#3,98320
1984#3,23326
1983#3,06527
1982#3,09328
1981#2,56336
1980#2,34241
1979#2,08848
1978#2,05046
1977#1,92251
1976#2,06042
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Naimah! It came in at #2,060, and was given to 42 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1991, when fewer than 21 girls a year got the name.

Where Naimah is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Naimah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Naimah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 526 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #6,116)
  • 1,236 spots since 2020 (#4,880 → #6,116)
  • 989 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #6,116)
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 1977 at #1,922 (51 births)
  • Births halved by 1985, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,845
  • Highest: 1 in 22,845 girls born in 2011 were named Naimah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,922 in 1977, was only 1 in 30,062 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 26.6% of all girls named Naimah (442) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s187#1,922 (1977)#2,030
1980s253#2,342 (1980)#3,691
1990s244#3,443 (1999)#4,459
2000s442#2,379 (2005)#3,806
2010s411#2,395 (2011)#3,989
2020s123#4,880 (2020)#5,924

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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