Ryma
Slavic name that carries the image of a white antelope, a gazelle. It stays rare in Poland: only about 61 women hold it and no girls have been given it in years, so meeting one would stick with you.
Ryma Pronunciation
Ryma is pronounced RIH-mah (/ˈrɨma/).
What Ryma means
Where Ryma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Ryma grows from Slavic soil. Its sound sits comfortably in Polish, close to words a child learns early. Yet the meaning most people attach to it, "white antelope," travels from somewhere else.
That meaning comes from the Arabic rīm, a word for the white gazelle. Classical Arabic poets praised the rīm for its grace and its large dark eyes, and the sense of "biała antylopa" reached Ryma through that association rather than from a Slavic root. Two threads sit side by side in one short name.
Ryma keeps no diminutives of its own. It stays as it is, four letters and two syllables.
On a class register the name reads short. A teacher calling it at the start of the year finds nothing to stumble over. Inside those two syllables waits the white antelope, the rīm of the Arabian sand.
How many people are named Ryma
1 in 369571 women in Poland is named Ryma. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4725 among female names.
Ryma as a middle name
Ryma is a first name for 61 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6664th, between Ryfka (2) and Rysia (2).
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