Naim (also spelled Na'im, Nayeem, Naeem, Naiem, Nahim, Naheem, Nyhiem, Nihiem, Nyheim, Niheem, or Nahiem) ( Arabic: نعیم, Hebrew: נעים) is a male given name and surname.

Notable persons with the name include:

• Naim ibn Hammad (died 843 AD), Hadith collector
• Naeem Ahmed (born 1952), Pakistani cricketer
• Na'im Akbar (born 1944), American psychologist
• Naïm Aarab (born 1988), Belgian football player
• Naim Araidi (1950–2015), Israeli writer
• Naim Ateek (born 1937), Palestinian priest
• Naim Attallah (born 1931), Palestinian businessman
• Naeem Ashraf (born 1972), Pakistani cricketer
• Naim Bey (1872–1934), Ottoman bureaucrat
• Naeem Bokhari (born 1948), Pakistani television host and lawyer
• Naim Dangoor (1914–2015), British businessman
• Naim Farouqi (born 1960), Afghan detainee
• Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian romantic poet
• Naim Frashëri (actor) (1923–1975), Albanian actor
• Naeem Hashmi (died 1976), Pakistani film actor
• Na'im ibn Musa, Iraqi mathematician
• Na'eem Jeenah (born 1965), South African political activist
• Naïm Kattan (born 1928), Jewish Iraqi-born Canadian writer
• Naim Khader (1939–1981), Palestinian Fatah member
• Naeem Khan (born 1958), American fashion designer
• Niam Kuchi (born 1940), Afghan detainee
• Naim Krieziu (1918–2010), Albanian football player
• Naim Maloku (born 1958), Kosovar politician
• Naeem Murr (born 1965), British novelist
• Naim Popal (born 1954), Afghan musician
• Naeim Saadavi (born 1969), Iranian football player and coach
• Naim Süleymanoğlu (1967–2017), Turkish weightlifter
• Naim Talu (1919–1998), Turkish politician and Prime Minister
• Naim Terbunja (born 1984), Swedish boxer
• Naimuddin (1832-1907), Bengali writer and scholar
• Naeem Wardak. (born 1985), Afghan Taliban spokesperson
• Nayeem (actor) (born 1970), Bangladeshi film actor of the 1990s
• Mohammad Nayeem Hasan (born 2000), Bangladeshi cricketer

Persons with the surname

• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (born 1946), Sudanese lawyer and writer
• Armon Ben-Naim (born 1990), Israeli football player
• C. M. Naim (born 1936), American writer
• Hussein Naeem (1987–2007), Lebanese football player
• Mohammad Naeem (disambiguation), several people
• Moisés Naím (born 1952), Venezuelan writer
• Omar Naim (born 1977), Lebanese film director and screenwriter
• Ra'anan Naim (born 1935), Israeli politician
• Yael Naim (born 1978), Israeli singer
• Yuval Naim (born 1967), Israeli former football player and manager
• Yuval Naimy (born 1985), Israeli basketball player
• Nabiul Islam Nayeem, Bangladeshi cricketer
• Syed Nayeemuddin, captain and later coach of the India national football team
• Mohammed Nayeemuddin (died August 8, 2016), Gangster and Naxal leader

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