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Salama

#16,835 in 2025Girls' name

Safety, peace

Salama has been given to 47 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #16,835 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Salama, 2025

1 in 663,000

Salama over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Salama: meaning, origin, and history

Safety, peace

Arabic

What Salama means

Salama means “safety, peace”, associated with salama.

Origin, language, and formation

Salama is used in Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Salama comes through Arabic سَلَامَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 47 girls were recorded with the name Salama between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2022; its best national rank was #7,770 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,088 in 2020 to #16,835 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Salama?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,835
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Salama sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salamas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Salama was born before 2020 — so the typical Salama is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
47
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Choose a decade

2020s — 53.2% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Salama rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+253
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 2022 (9)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,770
1975

Spellings of Salama

Salama is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 38.7% against Salama's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Salama around the world

Where Salama ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    1986–2025
    #2,248
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Salama by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 253
Best rank ever
#7,770
1975
Peak year
2022
9 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Salama

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SalmahSalanaSaleyaSalaniSalehaSalishSalayaSalitaSaloteSalemaSalynaSaletaSaleahSalmaiSalihaSaliahSaliceSaliaSalineSalsabilSalisaSalahSaloniSalayah

Sibling names for Salama

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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