Seema
Seema also spelled Sima, Sema is an Indian feminine given name meaning 'limit/boundary/frontier'.
- Hindi
- Marathi
Meaning & Origin of Seema
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Seema also spelled Sima, Sema is an Indian feminine given name meaning 'limit/boundary/frontier'.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
- Marathi
The Story of Seema
The earliest SSA record of Seema as a baby girl name dates back to 1966, when 6 babies received it. 1981 was its biggest year on record, with 56 newborns named Seema — #1,912 in the national rankings. About 31% of every Seema on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Seema last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 11 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Seema
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Names that sound like Seema
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About the name Seema
Seema is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1966 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Seema's peak popularity came in 1981 when it ranked #1,912. Use the chart and map above to compare Seema's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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