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Nima Nima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEE-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Sun / Sunday-born (Sherpa-Tibetan + Persian gift)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Tibetan)

A name that means "sun / sunday-born (sherpa-tibetan + persian gift)".

Nima is one of the Sherpa + Tibetan + Bhutanese unisex names — central to traditional Vajrayana Buddhist + Himalayan Indigenous heritage.

Sun / Sunday-born / blessing (Sherpa-Tibetan-Persian).

The name in its native script.

ཉི་མ་ / نعمه
Transliteration
nyi ma / Ne'ma
Pronunciation
/ ˈniː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nima stands.

Nima 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.

Nimas before her.

Real people
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Iranian-Canadian-American theoretical physicist + Breakthrough Prize 2012.
born 1972
In fiction
Nima
Sherpa-Tibetan sun / Sunday-born.

Names connected to Nima.

The number behind Nima.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nima reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.