Halima
A Hebrew name meaning "gentle, mild", also at home in Arabic-speaking families. Most Poles will never meet one: fewer than thirty women carry it, all of them girls and women.
Halima Pronunciation
Halima is pronounced khah-LEE-mah (/xaˈlima/).
What Halima means
Where Halima comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Halima grows from a Semitic root, and the fields give its origin as Hebrew, with the name lived and loved across the Arabic world. Its short meaning is gentle, mild. The same root that feeds the Arabic sense of forbearance sits under this name, tying it to patience rather than force.
The best documented bearer is Halima al-Sa'diyya, the Bedouin woman who nursed and fostered the infant Muhammad. Islamic tradition records her as Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb. Through her the name became a byword for a caretaker's mildness, a woman remembered for tending rather than ruling.
No diminutives or variant forms are recorded here. It stands on its own. In Poland the name stays rare, an Arabic name that a teacher might read slowly once from a school register and not forget. What holds across all of it is the plain meaning: gentle, mild.
How many people are named Halima
1 in 805137 women in Poland is named Halima. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7847 among female names.
Halima's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1585 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Halima as a middle name
Halima is a first name for 28 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1915th, between Gerta (15) and Inocenta (15).
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#1913 Galia15
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#1914 Gerta15
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#1915 Halima15
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#1916 Inocenta15
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#1917 Ivona15