Saļma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Saļma is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 6.2K
- NONorway1 in 9.6K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
12,322 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Salma in US United States, ES Spain.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Salma är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’oskadad, frisk’. En variantform är → Selma. En känd namnbärare är den mexikansk-amerikanska skådespelerskan Salma Hayek (f. 1966).
Cited for this meaning 8
- African Muslim Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saļma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
12,322 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Saļma a male or female name?
- Saļma is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Saļma have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Saļma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salma.
- Where is Saļma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saļma is densest in Spain — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saļma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,322 people named Saļma in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Saļma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sa%C4%BCmaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saļma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.