Entry № 9550 · Kinyarwanda origin

Shema Shema — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Kinyarwanda
Meaning
"Glory, pride"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "glory, pride".

Shema means glory and pride — honour and brightness. It carries dignity and warmth.

Glory, pride — a Kinyarwanda name.

The name in its native script.

Shema
Transliteration
Shema
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃe.ma /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shema stands.

Shema 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.

Shemas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Shema.

The number behind Shema.

1

The Leader

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