Sima
#2,645 for girls in 2025, 65 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 74 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,125since 1920
Sima over time
Rank among girls' names. Sima has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,645 | 65 |
| 2024 | #2,434 | 74 |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 |
| 2022 | #2,720 | 63 |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2015 | #3,092 | 54 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 |
| 2011 | #3,303 | 49 |
| 2010 | #3,470 | 46 |
| 2009 | #3,619 | 44 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 |
| 2006 | #3,564 | 44 |
| 2005 | #2,787 | 59 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 |
| 2003 | #4,943 | 25 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 |
| 1991 | #3,722 | 28 |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #3,805 | 24 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 |
| 1985 | #2,749 | 34 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #3,093 | 28 |
| 1981 | #3,253 | 26 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 |
| 1979 | #3,541 | 22 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 |
| 1960 | #4,184 | 10 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
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| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 |
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| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sima! It came in at #4,975, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1927, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sima is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#804 · 1 in 4,418
- New Jersey#809 · 1 in 4,620
- California#3,451 · 1 in 41,525
Best ever in a state: #436 in New York, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #804 | 21 | 1 in 4,418 |
| New Jersey | #809 | 8 | 1 in 4,620 |
| California | #3,451 | 5 | 1 in 41,525 |
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See more about Sima
- 211 spots since 2024 (#2,434 → #2,645)
- 853 spots since 2020 (#3,498 → #2,645)
- 447 spots since 2015 (#3,092 → #2,645)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 2024 at #2,434 (74 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,894 girls born in 2024 were named Sima (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.1% of all girls named Sima (491) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #4,195 (1928) | #4,585 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,782 (1939) | #3,782 |
| 1940s | 36 | #3,444 (1942) | #4,524 |
| 1950s | 79 | #3,714 (1951) | #4,465 |
| 1960s | 96 | #3,085 (1967) | #4,730 |
| 1970s | 177 | #2,728 (1976) | #3,889 |
| 1980s | 234 | #2,749 (1985) | #3,716 |
| 1990s | 259 | #3,722 (1991) | #4,085 |
| 2000s | 385 | #2,787 (2005) | #3,922 |
| 2010s | 491 | #2,923 (2019) | #3,286 |
| 2020s | 351 | #2,434 (2024) | #2,912 |
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.
Sima in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
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1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 35,899 of them was named Sima, which outranked 83.1% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,267Sheridan50
- #3,267Silvana50
- #3,267Yocelin50
- #3,303Sima49
- #3,303Aidyn49
- #3,303Ailin49
- #3,303Akemi49
- #3,350Aadya48
- #3,350Adysen48
- #3,350Aine48
Tied with 46 names at #3,303; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.