Raima is a modern Bengali feminine formation. A modern American baby name in the broader Bengali heritage aesthetic. Raima Sen (born 1979) is a foundational Bengali, Bollywood, and Tamil cinema actress — widely considered one of the leading Bengali contemporary actresses of the 2000s and 2010s. Foundational granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen (1931-2014) — the foundational Bengali screen icon. Foundational niece of Moon Moon Sen (her mother) and sister of Riya Sen. Foundational great-granddaughter of poet Adinath Sen + descendant of the foundational Tagore-related Bengali literary family. Films include the iconic Godmother (1999) Bollywood debut at age 20 opposite Shabana Azmi — directed by Vinay Shukla — earning her foundational National Film Award Special Mention (1999), Chokher Bali (2003) — directed by Rituparno Ghosh — opposite Aishwarya Rai — adapted from Rabindranath Tagore's iconic foundational 1903 Bengali novel, Antarmahal (2005), The Bong Connection (2006), the foundational Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2007) — directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), and Memories in March (2010). Over 500,000 Instagram followers.
Featured throughout Bengali cinema and Sen family heritage.
Raima does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Raima reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.