Entry № 8725 · Arabic origin

Rima Rima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REE-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Gazelle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "gazelle".

Rima is from the Arabic ريما — white antelope, gazelle. Rima is one of the Arabic feminine names.

White antelope / gazelle (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

ريما
Transliteration
Rīmā
Pronunciation
/ ˈriː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rima stands.

Rima 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.

Rimas before her.

Real people
Rima Fakih
Miss USA 2010 first Arab-American + first Muslim-American.
born 1985
In fiction
Rima
Arabic gazelle.

Names connected to Rima.

The number behind Rima.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rima reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.