Lima

Locally spelled Rima in US United States, IN India, Лима in RU Russia and Laima in LV Latvia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Spanish:/ˈli.ma/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lima, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Bean
• Cinnamon
• Basil
• Adriana
• Italy

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Lima is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, Canada

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Lyma, Limae, Li-Mae, Lìmã, Li-Ma

• Bangla given name17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United Kingdom, United States

  Also written লিমা, Luma, Lîmä, Līmā, Límã

• French surname13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Líma, Limà, Limá, Lïmã, Limã

• Hindi name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Limâ, Limà, Líma, Lîma

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Li-Ma, Līmā, Limä

• Swedish name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Norway

  Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

  Also written Lìma, Lîma, Lïmã, Lïmâ, Līmä

• Finnish name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Also written Lîma, Lïmä

• Indonesian name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia

  Also written Ļįmã

77 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Lima is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, topographic name for someone living on the banks of the river of this name (of pre-Roman origin, probably akin to a Celtic element lemos, limos ‘elm’).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Spanish, of uncertain derivation; possibly from lima ‘file’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Portuguese, lime (fruit)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, city. OH

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In umb, cultivate. *Lzmbay v. a., slip the memory

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Umbundu Language

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Adriana Limab. 1981BRBrazilian model
• Floriana Limab. 1981USAmerican actress
• Pepeb. 1983BRnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

79 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 42 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Lima come from?

someone living on the banks of the river of this name (of pre-Roman origin, probably akin to a Celt, element mean¬ ing ‘elm’; cf. Lemos and Lennox). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.

How do you pronounce Lima?

In Spanish /ˈli.ma/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Lima mean?

Recorded meaning: someone living on the banks of the river of this name (of pre-Roman origin, probably akin to a Celt, element mean¬ ing ‘elm’; cf.

How common is the name Lima?

In Brazil, the national register counted 367 people named Lima in 2022, about 1 in 577 thousand residents.

Which countries have the most people named Lima?

Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Lima in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rima. After it come United States, Latvia, Sweden and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.