Saima

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Saima: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Saima: Recorded since 1971, it reached #273 in 1982, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
54years from first to last
#273highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#436
1997	#473
1998	#571
1999	#529
2000	#527
2001	#435
2002	#532
2003	#569
2004	#618
2005	#736
2006	#659
2007	#755
2008	#817
2009	#1055
2010	#1040
2011	#1295
2012	#1342
2013	#1400
2014	#1798
2015	#1961
2016	#2547
2017	#3229
2018	#2187
2019	#2643
2020	#4535
2022	#2888
2023	#4056
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1971–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #603 among girls in Norway in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1971–1990
Highest recorded position: #273 among girls in Norway, in 1982 (recorded 1971–1990).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Saima appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 28 ranked years and 907 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Girls, from 1971.

Saima across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Saima's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#436 (1996)	#435 (2001)	#4843 (2024)	28 of 29	907 (1996–2024)	71 (1996)
Norway · Girls	#603 (1971)	#273 (1982)	#580 (1990)	19 of 20	172 (1971–1990)	17 (1982)

Saima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Saima in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	232	4 of 10	58
2000sbusiest	483	10 of 10	48
2010s	171	10 of 10	17
2020s	21	4 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 48 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Saima appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #273 in Norway in 1982.

Saima's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3229	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1400	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1342	24	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1295	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1055	30	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#817	41	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#755	44	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#659	48	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#736	40	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#618	49	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#569	52	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#532	56	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#435	70	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#527	53	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#529	54	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#571	47	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#473	60	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#436	71	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#580	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#640	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#501	8	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#532	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#459	9	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#328	14	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#369	11	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#273	17	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#504	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#303	15	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#396	10	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#344	12	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#337	12	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#390	10	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#482	7	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#471	7	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#506	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#570	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#603	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1971 and 2024, ranked in 47 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #273, first reached in 1982.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 71 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Saint · #403, 13y
Saira · #428, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rosalind · #274, 49y
Gwen · #271, 52y
Agathe · #270, 45y
Rut · #268, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Gregg · #273, 16y
Glyn · #272, 23y
Aram · #275, 36y
Lyndon · #271, 34y

Saima was ranked #273 in Norway · Girls in 1982. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Saima and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Saima without appearing here.

Saima moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.
Tyler Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1055 and #958 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1040 and #1520.
Pauline Compare
In 1989 they stood at #640 and #536 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #580 and #675.
Teresa Compare
In 1987 they stood at #532 and #463 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #640 and #694.

Moved ahead of Saima

Lorraine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #2115.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #1939.
Mona Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2643 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #4535 and #2042.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #1959.

Moved the opposite way to Saima

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Saima

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Saima went from #436 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1971 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #273 in Norway in 1982. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Saima

Saima at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Saima across 2 official records

Saima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Saima appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Saima at a glance

Saima across 2 official records

Saima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Saima appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Saima

Saima and the names beside it

Saima moved ahead of

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