Entry № 9471 · Arabic origin

Shaima Shaima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAY-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Foster-sister of Prophet"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "foster-sister of prophet".

Shaima is from the Arabic Shaymāʾ.

Foster-sister of Prophet — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

شيماء
Transliteration
Shaymāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃaɪ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shaima stands.

Shaima 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.

Shaimas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shaima bint Halimah / Battle of Hunayn
Arabic beauty-mark + Shayma bint Halimah foster-sister of Prophet Muhammad + daughter of Halimah al-Saʿdiya wet-nurse + Battle of Hunayn 630 CE captured + recognized by Prophet
Islamic Sira

Names connected to Shaima.

The number behind Shaima.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shaima reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.