Reema — White gazelle — Gulf spelling. Top Saudi girls name. Reema bint Bandar Al Saud —.

The white antelope, the desert oryx — from the Arabic root ر-ي-م (rim — the white antelope or gazelle). The rim is the Arabian oryx (or its larger cousin, the addax) — the desert antelope famous in classical Arab poetry for its long curved horns, white coat, and the way it could survive without water for weeks. The female of the species (rima/reema) was the standard image of pure white beauty in classical love-poetry, often paired with the ghazal (gazelle).

The name does not appear in the Quran. But it shares its general semantic field with other Quranic creatures of grace — the deer, the gazelle, and the oryx all serving in classical poetry as images of the kind of beauty that flees from being possessed. The Arabian oryx itself nearly went extinct in the 20th century before conservation efforts in Oman and the UAE brought it back; it remains the national animal of several Gulf states and a powerful symbol of the resilient desert.

Top Saudi, Gulf, Levantine, and Egyptian girls name. Variants: Reem, Rim, Reema, Reema, Rima. Famous bearers include the Saudi Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. The Arabic is رِيمَة (or رِيم).

Reema opens with Ra — an outward self in motion. Beneath the surface, Ya brings an interior of strong selfhood; Meem brings an interior of love and water. These are the hidden weathers of the name. Reema ends in Alif — everything resolves back to the source. Read together, the letters ask her to embody white antelope as a lived structure, not merely a definition.