Saloma

#6,075 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Saloma has been given to 714 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #6,075 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Saloma, 2025

1 in 166,000

Saloma over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saloma: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saloma means

Saloma is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Saloma is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 714 girls were recorded with the name Saloma between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,274 in 1907.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,044 in 2020 to #6,075 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,545 in 2015 to #6,075 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.

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How common is Saloma?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 166,000; 20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 80,400; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,075; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 114,896 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Saloma 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saloma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saloma was born before 2001 — so the typical Saloma is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 50.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 584; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Saloma 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: +1,816; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −31; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,470; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.25×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 83.3%; Peak was 2023 (24)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,274; 1907

Spellings of Saloma

Saloma is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 60.0% against Saloma's 0.26%.

Alma60.0%163,723
Selma9.9%26,881
Alora4.4%11,893
Paloma3.9%10,765
Salma3.8%10,311
Salina2.7%7,239
Salem2.4%6,491
Salena1.9%5,163

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.

Where Saloma is used

Across 1910–2025, Saloma was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 221,405 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Missouri1 in 100,000
2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
3New York1 in —
4Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saloma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saloma around the world

Where Saloma 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.

Canada
2024–2024
#3,027
in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Saloma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,075
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 31
Best rank ever: #1,274; 1907
Peak year: 2023; 24 that year
First recorded: 1888
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 714
Count in 2025: 20

Names similar to Saloma

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

Salima Saleen Saloni Saliha Salwa Saliyah Saleah Salaya Chioma Saleha Sallye Salimah Salam Salley Ifeoma Salome Salayah Salena Salah Sallee Salli Saleena Salia Sonoma

Sibling names for Saloma

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

For a sister

Annabell Karleigh Adelle Leonor Keren Kendyl Anabel Hayleigh

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Caesar Kale Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Aaden

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