Sálma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sálma is a 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)
- USUnited States1 in 27K
- BRBrazil1 in 114K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
12,322 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salma in US United States, ES Spain, BR Brazil and 1 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).
Sources 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 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sálma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,322 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Salma | 199 |
| ES Spain | — | 12,012 | 1 in 4.2K | 12K | Salma | 82 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,851 | 1 in 114K | 2K | Salma | 83 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,639 | 1 in 6.2K | 1.6K | — | 7 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,122 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | — | 21 |
| DK Denmark | — | 603 | 1 in 9.7K | 603 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 568 | 1 in 9.6K | 2K | — | 6 |
| MA Morocco | #613 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | — | Salma | 59 |
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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sálma a male or female name?
- Sálma 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 Sálma have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Sálma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salma.
- Where is Sálma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sálma 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 Sálma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,322 people named Sálma in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Sálma compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Sálma is the 613th most common given name of 41,711 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%A1lmaThe 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, “Sálma” — the 613th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.