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1) Latin spelling of the Arabic both genders name نِعْمَة (Ni'mah) meaning 'blessing', 'gift from god', 'favour from god' [1]
2) Latin spelling of the Persian male name نیما (Nima) meaning 'just', 'fair' [2]
3) Latin spelling of the Persian male name نيما (Nima) derived from the name of a mountain probably meaning 'strong', 'powerful', 'commander of the army'
4) Latin spelling of a Russian both genders pet form of several different names [3] [4]
Neema | ♀/♂ |
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Arabic |
Nima | ♀/♂ |
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Arabic |
Nimo | ♀ |
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Somali |
Nima is a name used among immigrants from Arabic-speaking countries and Iran and Russia, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[5] |
|
696 | 894 | 138 | 150 | 558 | 744 |
Denmark[6] |
|
163 | n.a. |
22 | n.a. |
141 | n.a. |
Finland[7] |
|
n.a. |
91 | n.a. |
15 | n.a. |
76 |
Iceland[8] |
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1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
|
181 | n.a. |
61 | n.a. |
120 | n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only | |||||||
&: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |