Fun Facts About the Name Uzma
- 155 babies named Uzma: U.S. records list 155 babies given the name Uzma from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Uzma Mean?
Uzma is a feminine Arabic name meaning "greatest" or "supreme." It comes from the Arabic feminine elative form ʿuẓmā (عُظْمَى), built on the root ʿ-ẓ-m, which carries the sense of greatness or magnitude. The same root gives the adjective ʿaẓīm ("great") and the masculine elative aʿẓam (أَعْظَم, "greater" or "greatest"), from which the name Azam derives. The literal sense of Uzma is therefore the feminine "greatest"; "supreme" is a common rendering rather than a separate etymology.
Uzma Name History & Origins
Uzma belongs to the stock of Arabic personal names formed from adjectives and elative forms. Its masculine counterpart, Aʿẓam, is also used as a name, while the root adjective ʿaẓīm appears widely in Arabic and Islamic vocabulary. The feminine form ʿUẓmā was adopted as a personal name in Arabic-speaking societies and, through the spread of Arabic and Persianate Muslim culture, became familiar in South Asia. It is used chiefly in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and among diaspora communities from those regions, as well as in Arabic-speaking countries. In Urdu and other South Asian languages the name is written as Uzma, and the Arabic ʿayn is not pronounced; English usage likewise omits it and often shortens the final long vowel.
How Popular is the Name Uzma?
Uzma 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 1980. Its best rank was #5,898 in 1980.
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 | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | #17,453 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2010 | #19,661 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #13,852 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #16,342 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #18,289 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #17,514 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #12,626 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1998 | #14,027 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1997 | #16,050 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1996 | #13,451 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #13,370 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1992 | #8,715 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #15,164 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #9,780 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1985 | #12,428 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1984 | #12,111 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #10,232 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #12,253 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #6,306 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1980 | #5,898 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1979 | #6,166 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1978 | #9,707 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1977 | #7,538 | 8 | 0.0005% |
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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How the Name Uzma Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have talent, charm and luck. You can succeed in art and in any educational occupation. You attract peculiar experiences. Your power and protection lies in spiritual side of life. You are an enthusiastic collector and you will be tenacious in holding onto the things you accumulate. You have a good memory and should make an effort to have a positive attitude. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under the pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it.
You are very intuitive. You have a reservoir of inspired wisdom combined with inherited analytical ability, which could reward you through expressions of spiritual leadership, business analysis, marketing, artistic visions, and scientific research. Operating on spiritual side of your individuality can bring you to the great heights, and drop you off if you neglect your spiritual identity. You are always looking for an opportunity to investigate the unknown, to use and show your mental abilities, to find the purpose and meaning of life. You want to grow wise and to understand people and things. You need privacy to replenish your energy. You have a unique way of thinking, intuitive, reflective, absorbing.
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