Entry № 7350 · Luhya origin

Nelima Nelima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ neh-LEE-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Luhya
Meaning
"Born in the planting season"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "born in the planting season".

Nelima names a girl born when the fields are tilled and sown — the season of new growth. It carries freshness and hope.

It reads fresh and warm, a planting-season name.

Born in the planting season — a Luhya name of grace and heritage.

The name in its native script.

Nelima
Transliteration
Nelima
Pronunciation
/ neˈli.ma /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nelima stands.

Nelima 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.

Nelimas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nelima.

The number behind Nelima.

9

The Giver

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