Nima is from the Sherpa-Tibetan ཉི་མ་ (nyi ma — sun, Sunday-born) + Persian نعمه (Ne'ma — blessing, gift) — dual-origin unisex name. A modern American baby name in the broader Sherpa-Tibetan + Persian heritage aesthetic. Nima is one of the foundational Sherpa + Tibetan + Bhutanese unisex names — central to traditional Vajrayana Buddhist + Himalayan Indigenous heritage. The foundational Tibetan-Sherpa day-name family: Dawa (Monday), Mingma (Tuesday), Lhakpa (Wednesday), Phurba (Thursday), Pasang (Friday), Pemba (Saturday), Nima (Sunday). Notable bearer: Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972) — foundational Iranian-Canadian-American theoretical physicist + foundational Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) + Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2012 + foundational figure in foundational particle physics + cosmology research.
Featured throughout Sherpa heritage.
Nima reduces to eight.