Rima is from the Arabic ريما — white antelope, gazelle. A modern American baby name in the broader Arabic-Lebanese heritage aesthetic. Rima is one of the foundational Arabic feminine names. Notable bearers: Rima Fakih (born 1985) — foundational Lebanese-American beauty queen + Miss USA 2010 — the foundational first Arab-American + first Muslim-American + first immigrant to be crowned Miss USA (foundational moment in American multicultural pageantry history); Rima Karaki — foundational Lebanese television host + 2015 interrupted viral broadcast confronting Hani Al-Seba'i; Rima Khalaf — foundational Jordanian diplomat + first woman to lead the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2010-2017). Foundational Arabic feminine name reflecting the broader Arab Levantine + Maghrebi naming heritage.
Featured throughout Arabic heritage.
Rima 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 Rima reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.