Entry № 3997 · Arabic origin

Halima Halima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hah-LEE-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Gentle (Somali-Arabic + Halima Aden first hijab Sports Illustrated)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "gentle (somali-arabic + halima aden first hijab sports illustrated)".

Halima is from the Arabic حَلِيمَة (Ḥalīmah — gentle, patient, mild). Halima is one of the Arabic + Somali feminine names — central to traditional Islamic + East African heritage.

Gentle (Somali-Arabic + Halima Aden first hijab Sports Illustrated) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

حَلِيمَة
Transliteration
Ḥalīmah
Pronunciation
/ həˈliː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Halima stands.

Halima 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.

Halimas before her.

Real people
Halima Aden
Somali-American model + first hijab Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2019 + Vogue Arabia 2017.
born 1997
In fiction
Halima al-Sa'diyya
Bedouin foster-mother of Prophet Muhammad.

Names connected to Halima.

The number behind Halima.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Halima reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.