The Rima surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 558 people carried this name — #39,419 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 4% from 538 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
115 people named Rima live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 67 people named Rima live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 55 people named Rima.
19 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often French Polynesia.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Rima,
with a public archive behind them.
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Tommaso Rima 1775–1843 · surgeon -
Tommaso Rima 1775–1843 · surgeon
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Augusto Rima 1916–2003 · engineer
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Alessandro Rima 1920–2016 · engineer
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Marco Rima 1961– · screenwriter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rima.
- Rigoli 380 · U.S. census
- Rigoni 438 · U.S. census
- Rigot 173 · U.S. census
- Rigotti 196 · U.S. census
- Rigoulot 127 · U.S. census
- Rihn 488 · U.S. census
- Rimbert 159 · U.S. census
- Rime 149 · U.S. census
- Rimlinger 124 · U.S. census
- Rinaldi 7,756 · U.S. census
- Rinaldo 1,052 · U.S. census
- Rinaudo 380 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Rima is.
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