girl's name

Rima

  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 3,096

France

#847

2025 births

Rima is a girl's name with 2 syllables. In 2025 it was given to 36 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2015, when 38 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 92,098 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1927.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Rima over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1920s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'20 '30 '40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Rima by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1920s 10
1930s 51
1940s 65
1950s 85
1960s 177
1970s 185
1980s 251
1990s 243
2000s 153
2010s 281
2020s (to 2025) 153

How popular is Rima?

In 2025, Rima was given to 36 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Rima is used

France #847 45 in 2025
Canada #2,555 8 in 2024
England & Wales #3,938 6 in 2025
United States #4,001 36 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Rima

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Rima also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Rima over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Rima in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Rim

Sibling names for Rima

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Rima — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Rima

How popular is the name Rima?

In 2025, Rima was given to 36 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Rima a girl's or a boy's name?

Rima is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Rima?

Rima has 2 syllables.

When was Rima most popular?

Rima peaked in 2015, when 38 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Rima a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Rima currently ranks #847 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.