Alima is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Alima in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Alima in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Alima by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Alima ranks at #5,959. That means there are 5,958 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alima.
In fact, the name Alima did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Alima seemed to be more popular than ever in 2018. Although the name never ranked higher than #4,549, 25 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Alima, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alima was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Alima a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #6,090 - with a total of 16 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Alima, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in New York and Pennsylvania. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Alima living in one state or another (if your name is Alima and you live outside of New York and Pennsylvania, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 291,056 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Alima. So, if your name is Alima it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Alima already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Alima is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Alima 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 Alima, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alima
Alima
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
I
M
A
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.
A
L
I
M
A
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. Alima sounds like this:
