Rima is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Rima is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Rima. In the SmartGenius ranking, Rima is #4,228 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rima.
While Rima is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1966, the name Rima reached its highest popularity with #2,249 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Rima. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Rima.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rima was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 26 babies were born with the name Rima. This puts the name in rank 4,420 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 5,701,227 newborns was named Rima that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Rima has been and remains marvelously unusual!
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Rima in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 317 women and girls named Rima, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 317 women and girls named Rima live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Rima. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Rima lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Rima and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Rima relative to its female population is New York. And even there, only one in 107,507 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Rima.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Rima is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Rima and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rima, you can simply say:
Rocket
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rima
Rima
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rima sounds like this: