Sàlma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sàlma is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Tanzania it is the 27th most common given name. Sàlma is also written ซัลมา in Thai, Σαλμά in Greek and 살마 in Korean (Hangul).
- MAMorocco≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 360few records
- TZTanzania≈1 in 470
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 Sàlma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 186 (inferred from the name graph)
≈490,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sàlma in other scripts: Thai, Greek, Korean (Hangul) and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Salma in IN India, US United States, TZ Tanzania and 4 more.
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 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sàlma 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #577 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 91 | Salma | 122 |
| BD Bangladesh | #48 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 536 | listed | Salma | 82 |
| MA Morocco | #184 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 186 | — | Salma | 71 |
| TZ Tanzania | #27 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 467 | — | Salma | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 94,743as Selma | 1 in 2.2K | 102K | — | 4 |
| TN Tunisia | #464 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 358 | — | Salma | 28 |
| SE Sweden | #926 | 14,394as Selma | 1 in 709 | 14K | Salma | 19 |
| US United States | — | 12,322 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Salma | 295 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sàlma is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, 1. vojn. pov. starinsko oružje; buzdovan na lancu, mlat 2. reg. ispust stoke na njive i livade u kasnu jesen kad je ljetina već zbrinuta i kad više nije potreban pastir
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sàlma a male or female name?
- Sàlma 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Sàlma?
- Mondonomo estimates about 491 thousand people named Sàlma in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salma. After it come Bangladesh, Morocco, Tanzania and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sàlma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,322 people named Sàlma in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Sàlma compared with other names?
- In India, Sàlma is the 577th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A0lmaThe 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, “Sàlma” — ranked 30129th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.