Fun Facts About the Name Blima
- More than 1 thousand babies named Blima: U.S. records list 1,569 babies given the name Blima from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Blima Mean?
Blima is a Yiddish feminine name meaning "flower." It comes from the Yiddish word blum ("flower"), which descends from Middle High German bluome and modern German Blume. In this reading Blima is a variant of the Yiddish name Bluma, with the same "flower" sense; the related affectionate forms Blime and Blimele point to the same source.
A separate, later explanation treats the name as a compressed Hebrew phrase, b'li mah (בלי מה), roughly "without anything" or "nothingness," read as an expression of humility. This interpretation appears in religious commentary rather than in linguistic sources, and it is not the same as the word-history above; it should be treated as a symbolic reading, not as the name's literal etymology.
Blima Name History & Origins
Blima belongs to the large group of Yiddish personal names that Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe formed from ordinary words, especially names taken from nature. Alongside Bluma, Golda ("gold"), Feige ("bird"), and Reizel ("rose"), a name meaning "flower" fit a familiar pattern of giving girls names drawn from German-derived vocabulary.
The name travelled with Yiddish-speaking communities and appears in a range of spellings, including Blima, Bluma, Blime, and Blimah, reflecting the lack of fixed transliteration from Yiddish into English and other alphabets. It remained in use in Ashkenazi families and is still given in Hasidic and other traditional Jewish communities. Its Hebrew-phrase reading circulated as a devotional gloss on an already-established name rather than as its origin.
How Popular is the Name Blima?
Blima has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2023. Its best rank was #2,494 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,937 | 57 | 0.0035% |
| 2024 | #3,017 | 54 | 0.0033% |
| 2023 | #2,494 | 71 | 0.0044% |
| 2022 | #2,930 | 57 | 0.0035% |
| 2021 | #3,554 | 43 | 0.0026% |
| 2020 | #3,022 | 53 | 0.0033% |
| 2019 | #3,508 | 44 | 0.0026% |
| 2018 | #3,684 | 41 | 0.0024% |
| 2017 | #4,712 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2016 | #2,907 | 58 | 0.0033% |
| 2015 | #4,000 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 2014 | #3,599 | 43 | 0.0024% |
| 2013 | #3,716 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2012 | #3,223 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 2011 | #3,926 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 2010 | #3,213 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 2009 | #4,381 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2008 | #3,591 | 45 | 0.0024% |
| 2007 | #4,579 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2006 | #4,973 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2005 | #4,723 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2004 | #4,105 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2003 | #4,044 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2002 | #4,654 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2001 | #5,036 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2000 | #6,251 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1999 | #7,303 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #4,507 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 1997 | #4,524 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 1996 | #4,070 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 1995 | #5,706 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1994 | #4,259 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1993 | #5,230 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1992 | #4,251 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 1991 | #5,429 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1990 | #4,537 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1989 | #5,875 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1988 | #4,668 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1987 | #4,305 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1986 | #7,188 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1985 | #5,101 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1984 | #3,743 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 1983 | #4,703 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1982 | #4,039 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 1981 | #4,551 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 1980 | #6,359 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1979 | #3,793 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 1978 | #4,700 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 1977 | #6,398 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1976 | #5,632 | 10 | 0.0007% |
| 1975 | #5,190 | 11 | 0.0008% |
| 1974 | #4,484 | 13 | 0.0009% |
| 1973 | #5,223 | 10 | 0.0007% |
| 1972 | #6,010 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1971 | #7,468 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1970 | #6,429 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1969 | #5,493 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1960 | #5,767 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1952 | #4,967 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1951 | #4,894 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1950 | #4,786 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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