Niguma (11th c.) was the Indian female mahasiddha — sister or consort of the great Indian master Naropa — who transmitted the Six Yogas of Niguma that became the foundation of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Believed to have already attained full enlightenment (the Rainbow Body) by the time she taught, she remains a luminous figure of female enlightenment in Vajrayana.
Featured throughout Shangpa Kagyu lineage texts.
Niguma 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Niguma reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.