Baby name
STABLE
🇩🇪 🇰🇪 Simba
/SIM · bah/
Meaning
“Swahili word for 'lion'”
Swahili word for 'lion'; brought to global attention by Disney's The Lion King (1994), though it had been used as a given name in East Africa before that.
Nicknames
sim
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Forever associated with The Lion King; ages as pop culture rather than classic.
The cultural moment.
East African given name historically; global spike after 1994 Disney release.