Alima

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Alima: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #969 in 2000, and it stood at #4,192 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#969highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1450
1998	#1122
1999	#1473
2000	#969
2001	#1238
2002	#1192
2003	#1083
2004	#1535
2005	#1082
2006	#1660
2007	#1443
2008	#2292
2009	#1837
2010	#1731
2011	#1438
2012	#1893
2013	#2062
2014	#1882
2015	#3252
2016	#2757
2017	#2201
2018	#1788
2019	#2286
2020	#3117
2021	#2711
2022	#2178
2023	#2063
2024	#4192

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #969 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Alima 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 Alima in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	58	4 of 10	15
2000sbusiest	169	10 of 10	17
2010s	135	10 of 10	14
2020s	46	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

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

Alima appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #969 in England and Wales in 2000.

Alima'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	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2757	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2062	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1731	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1837	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1443	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1192	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#969	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1122	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1450	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1168	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #969, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#4,192position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
23births registered in its largest year, 2005Under 25 births →

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

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Monet · #969, 28y
Jibril · #970, 27y
Keyan · #968, 27y
Fariha · #971, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Monet · #969, 28y
Blade · #970, 22y
Jibril · #970, 27y
Keyan · #968, 27y

Alima was ranked #969 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. 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.

Alima 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 Alima without appearing here.

Alima moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #5493.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #4535.
Donna Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2292 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1837 and #3031.

Moved ahead of Alima

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.
Jude Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2063 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1894.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1882 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #3252 and #1240.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Alima

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Alima

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alima went from #1168 to #4192 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #969 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alima

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Alima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Alima at a glance

Alima by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Alima and the names beside it

Alima moved ahead of

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