Rima is a distinctive choice, ranked #3705 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Rima in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#3705
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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 rare in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Rima in their class.
⭐ Famous People Named Rima
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 Alamuddin — Rima Alamuddin was a Lebanese–Swiss writer, and one of the first Arab female authors to publish in English.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Rima
Unlikely. With around 6 UK babies named Rima per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Rima in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Rima is declining: down 588 places since 2020, to #3,705 in 2025. It peaked at #891 in 1996.
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 Hassan and Rima Horton. Short summaries for each appear below.
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.
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UK babies named Rima (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
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In a school of 600
↓ 588 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
Almost certainly the only Rima in the class
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UK Popularity (1996–2025)
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.
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} } ).