The baby name Chaimae is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SHAY-mah,IPA: /ʃeɪˈmæ/ or /ʃaɪˈmæ/.
Chaimae is Arabic in Origin.
The baby name Chaimae is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SHAY-mah,IPA: /ʃeɪˈmæ/ or /ʃaɪˈmæ/.
Chaimae is Arabic in Origin.
Chaimae is a Maghrebi-French rendering of the Arabic feminine name Shaimā’ (شيماء), built from shāmah/shāma “beauty mark, mole” plus the feminine suffix -ā’, yielding the sense “she who has a beauty mark” or “marked with beauty.” The spelling with Ch- and a final -e reflects French conventions for the sound /ʃ/ and the terminal hamza, hence variants Chaïmae and Chaïma alongside Shaima/Shaimaa.
The name is tied to early Islam through al-Shaymā’, the Prophet Muhammad’s foster sister, which helped embed it across the Arabic-speaking world. Today it is especially common in Morocco and wider North Africa and appears in diasporic communities in France, Belgium, and Spain; in Egypt and the Levant it is often Shaimaa, and in Turkish it becomes Şeyma. Additional forms include Chayma(e), Cheyma, Shayma, and Shaima’. Usage rose notably from the late 20th century through the 2010s.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA | 0 | #96 | 20,010 | 20,986 | |
| OM | 0 | #121 | 1 | 6,215 | |
| MT | Girls | 0 | #153 | 1 | 3,773 |
| AE | 0 | #187 | 1 | 10,220 | |
| LU | Girls | 0 | #189 | 2 | 4,850 |
| Belgium | Girls | 2007 | #194 | 21 | 407 |
| Canada | Girls | 1997 | #300 | 6 | 2,310 |
| SA | 0 | #312 | 1 | 10,560 | |
| DK | Girls | 0 | #325 | 5 | 7,429 |
| QA | Girls | 0 | #336 | 8 | 15,378 |
| France | Girls | 2019 | #405 | 7 | 3,279 |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #421 | 4 | 15,987 |
| Spain | 0 | #443 | 10 | 2,326 | |
| PT | Girls | 0 | #471 | 1 | 7,952 |
| RU | Girls | 0 | #522 | 2 | 11,913 |
| IQ | Girls | 0 | #525 | 1 | 11,303 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #526 | 28 | 20,968 |
| LY | 0 | #556 | 4 | 12,703 | |
| CM | Girls | 0 | #560 | 1 | 11,671 |
| KW | Girls | 0 | #560 | 2 | 19,177 |
| CR | Girls | 0 | #573 | 1 | 11,342 |
| BH | 0 | #580 | 8 | 17,937 | |
| LB | 0 | #689 | 2 | 13,263 | |
| NL | Girls | 0 | #771 | 185 | 5,933 |
| Spain | Girls | 0 | #781 | 204 | 5,561 |
| Germany | Girls | 0 | #828 | 11 | 4,949 |
| TN | 0 | #860 | 6 | 13,765 | |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #917 | 19 | 25,931 |
| BR | Girls | 0 | #992 | 1 | 12,708 |
| EG | Girls | 0 | #1,007 | 3 | 14,742 |
| DZ | 0 | #1,103 | 74 | 20,130 | |
| TR | 0 | #1,194 | 18 | 19,440 | |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,236 | 1 | 25,928 |
| IT | Girls | 0 | #1,282 | 165 | 9,415 |
Chaimae is popular in 30 countries — most recent births per country:
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