Rima is a distinctive choice, ranked #2412 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Rima in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#2412
About the Name Rima
Rima is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 705 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #891 in 1996 — and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Rima is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Rima
Unlikely. With around 11 UK babies named Rima per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Rima in her class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Rima is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 705 places over the last five years to #2412 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Rima is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Rima include: Rima Abdul Malak — Rima Abdul Malak is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from May 2022 to January 2024.; Rima Hassan — Rima Hassan Mobarak is a French jurist and politician of Palestinian and Kurdish origin, born in the Neirab refugee camp, near Aleppo, Syria.; Rima Horton — Rima Elizabeth Horton is an English former academic and Labour Party politician..
Rima does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Rimas in the wild.
11
UK babies named Rima (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
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In a school of 600
↑ 705 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Rima
Likely around 1 other Rima in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Rima
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Rima Abdul Malak is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne from May 2022 to January 2024. She is executive director of the Francophone Lebanese newspaper L'Orient–Le Jour.
Rima Hassan Mobarak is a French jurist and politician of Palestinian and Kurdish origin, born in the Neirab refugee camp, near Aleppo, Syria. Stateless, she arrived in France around the age of nine and settled with her family in Niort.
Rima Elizabeth Horton is an English former academic and Labour Party politician. She was a member of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1986 to 2006, and worked as a senior lecturer at Kingston University.
Rima Taha is a Jordanian sprinter. She competed in the 100 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics; she ran the preliminaries in 12.66 seconds, her personal best time, which did not qualify her for Round 1.
Terza rima (, also US: , Italian: [ˈtɛrtsa ˈriːma]; lit. 'third rhyme') is a rhyming verse form, in which the poem, or each poem-section, consists of tercets (three-line stanzas) with an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: The last word of the second line in one tercet provides the rhyme for the first and third lines in the tercet that follows ( A B A B C B C D C {\displaystyle \mathrm {ABA\,\,BCB\,\,CDC} } ).