Shaima is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Shaima in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shaima in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Shaima by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Shaima ranks at #8,341. That means there are 8,340 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 Shaima.
Meeting a woman or girl named Shaima is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Shaima can be found in only two: Michigan and New York. No other state currently has residents named Shaima. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Shaima living in one state or another (if your name is Shaima and you live outside of Michigan or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Shaima is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00018% of all female residents are named Shaima – that’s just one in 542,423! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 27 women with that name. So, if your name is Shaima, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Shaima is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shaima 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 Shaima, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shaima
Shaima
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
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.
S
H
A
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. Shaima sounds like this:
