Umayma is from the Arabic Umayma. A modern American baby name in the broader Arabic heritage aesthetic. Umayma is a foundational name with deep heritage. Arabic Umayma little mother diminutive of Umm + foundational Umayma bint ʿAbd al-Muttalib foundational paternal aunt of Prophet Muhammad + foundational central in pan-Islamic Prophetic-family heritage + foundational Umayma bint Anas foundational central female companion of Prophet + foundational central in pan-Islamic Sahaba (Companions) heritage + foundational pan-Islamic Sira biographical heritage spanning ~1,400 years. Foundational Arabic feminine name reflecting cultural + historical heritage spanning centuries.
Featured throughout Arabic heritage.
Umayma 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Umayma reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.