Entry № 2551 · Arabic origin

Dima Dima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEE-mah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Heavy rain"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "heavy rain".

Dima is from the Arabic Dīma.

Heavy rain — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

ديمة

Transliteration: Dīma
Pronunciation: / ˈdiː.mə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Dima stands.

Dima 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

Dimas before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Classical Arabic qaṣīda

Arabic heavy rain + pre-Islamic qaṣīda desert-rain poetry + nasib love-prelude opening + pan-Arabic poetic heritage ~1500 years

Arabic poetry

Names connected to Dima.

Numerology

The number behind Dima.

The Giver

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