Entry № 438 · Arabic origin

Alima Alima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-LEE-mah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Learned / scholar (Islamic scholarship)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "learned / scholar (islamic scholarship)".

Alima is from the Arabic ʿAlīma.

Learned / scholar (Islamic scholarship) — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

عليمة

Transliteration: ʿAlīma
Pronunciation: / əˈliː.mə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Alima stands.

Alima does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Alimas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Fatima al-Fihri / Al-Karaouine

Arabic learned scholar + ʿālim Islamic scholar + Al-Karaouine University Fes Morocco 859 CE + Fatima al-Fihri founder + worlds oldest continuously operating university

Islamic scholarship

Names connected to Alima.

Numerology

The number behind Alima.

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alima reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.