Şalamat

given name · Latin script

Şalamat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Malay selamat (“safety”), or from Classical Persian سلامت (salāmat, “good health”), ultimately from Arabic سَلَامَة (salāma, “good health; safety”).

rarermore common
  • KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 832(inferred from the name graph)
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 2.4K
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 18K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Şalamat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈12,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
153 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 832 (inferred from the name graph)

Kyrgyzstan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ŞalamatLatin(measured from records)
СаламатCyrillic(measured from records)
সালামতBengali(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Salamat in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria, UZ Uzbekistan and Саламат in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.

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)
Derivation of Şalamat: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Şalamat
  1. Malayselamat“safety”(measured from records)
  2. Classical Persianسلامتsalāmat“good health”(measured from records)
  3. Arabicسَلَامَةsalāma“good health; safety”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Malay selamat (“safety”), or from Classical Persian سلامت (salāmat, “good health”), ultimately from Arabic سَلَامَة (salāma, “good health; safety”). In Classical Arabic, the ة character is not silent and read as /t/. Compare Aklanon saeamat.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Şalamat 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.

Where Şalamat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 18K—Salamat33
PK Pakistan#335≈8,000 est.≈1 in 29KlistedSalamat45
KG Kyrgyzstan#272≈7,200 est.≈1 in 832—Саламат17
KZ Kazakhstan#650≈6,400 est.≈1 in 3K4.7KСаламат38
UZ Uzbekistan—≈4,100 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Salamat9
TM Turkmenistan#349≈2,300 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Şalamat5
PL Poland—241 in 1.6M22—1

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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Şalamat is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Turkmenistan

    Also written Salamat

  • Thai surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Malaysia, India, Philippines

    Also written สะละหมัด, Selamat, Salamat, Silamat, Salamad

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, Philippines, Pakistan

    Also written Salamat

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Nigeria, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Salamat, Sàlàmàt, Šàlàmàt

  • Bulgarian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian

    Also written Саламат, Salamat

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Şalamat under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Şalamat mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Malay selamat (“safety”), or from Classical Persian سلامت (salāmat, “good health”), ultimately from Arabic سَلَامَة (salāma, “good health; safety”). Recorded by Wiktionary and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
In which country does Şalamat have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Şalamat in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salamat.
How common is the name Şalamat?
In Poland, the national register counted 24 people named Şalamat in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
How common is Şalamat compared with other names?
In Kyrgyzstan, Şalamat is the 272nd most common given name of 146,885 given names recorded there.

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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, “Şalamat” — the 272nd most common given name in Kyrgyzstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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