Entry № 3214 · Arabic origin

Fahima Fahima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fah-HEE-mah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Intelligent / understanding"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "intelligent / understanding".

Fahima is from the Arabic Fahīma.

Intelligent / understanding — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

فهيمة

Transliteration: Fahīma
Pronunciation: / fəˈhiː.mə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Fahima stands.

Fahima 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

Fahimas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Fahima Aziz / Islamic intellectual

Arabic intelligent understanding + Arab + Urdu + Persian + Turkish naming + classical Arabic + Urdu poetic vocabulary + Fahima Aziz Afghan-American author

Arabic + intellect

Names connected to Fahima.

Numerology

The number behind Fahima.

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fahima reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.