Deema

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 33 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
33
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4201
5 babies

Deema by the numbers

In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Deema. In the US, 33 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 35 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Deema

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Deema. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Deenavalley; a form of Dinah11 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Deemto judge or consider15 in the US (2017)
  • Deevagoddess or divine female; a form of Deva8 in the US (2017)
  • Deeyalamp; light; a form of Diya7 in the US (2017)
  • Dema17 in the US (2017)
  • Delma

Names about as common as Deema

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