Blima
Feminine · “flower”
Blima is a flower — the plain Yiddish word for one, taken from German and used as a name for centuries. Ashkenazi naming has a whole set of these: Yiddish words for lovely ordinary things, given to daughters without ceremony.
How old is the name Blima?
Blima first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Blima alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,500 people named Blima are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Blima most popular?
Blima peaked in 2023, reaching #2494 nationally. Today it ranks #2933, 439 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Blume to Blima
The story of Blima
Yiddish women's names divide into two kinds: Hebrew ones carried from scripture, and vernacular ones made from ordinary Yiddish words — Blima, a flower; Freida, joy; Golda, gold; Sheina, beautiful; Feigel, a bird. That second set has no biblical backing at all and was given freely for centuries across Eastern Europe. Blima came to America with Ashkenazi emigration and has stayed in observant communities, where the older Yiddish stock is still in ordinary use rather than being revived.
Meaning
flower
Yiddish blume means a flower, and it is the German Blume with the Yiddish vowel. Blima and Blume are the same name, spelled as different communities say it. The reading is transparent to any Yiddish or German speaker and is not in dispute.
How the name formed
- Blume
- Blima
Related forms: Blume · Blume · Perach
Pronouncing Blima
BLEE-mah
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a long ee. The German Blume is BLOO-muh, with a quite different vowel — the Yiddish shift is what makes this a separate spelling.
Nicknames for Blima
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1950
- Most girls named
- 202371 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2494reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +5.6%57 in 2025, from 54
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Blima in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Blume in Yiddish — spelling variant
- Blume in German — related form
- Perach in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Blimas among us
people named Blima are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 28,198 born in 2025 was named Blima
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Stepanie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Blima's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stepanie climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stepanie's path sketches the road Blima is walking now.
Blima sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Blima is headed
Blima should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Blima beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Blima in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A plain, warm meaning that every Yiddish and German speaker recognizes instantly.
- Five letters, entirely phonetic, and said correctly by English speakers at first sight.
- Rooted in a living tradition rather than revived from a list.
- Blima and Blime are both used, and the final vowel gets swapped in writing.
- It is strongly identified with observant Ashkenazi families, which is either the point or something to weigh.
- In English-speaking settings it is unfamiliar enough that it will be spelled out often.
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Frequently asked
- How many Blimas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Blima are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Blima in 2025?
- Blima ranks #2933 among US girl names in 2025, with 57 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Blima?
- About 1 in every 28,198 US girls born in 2025 was named Blima — 57 in all.
- Will my child share the name Blima with classmates?
- Blima will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Blima
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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