Saleema
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
Saleema is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Saleema is also written Салима in Cyrillic, สาลูมา in Thai and სალიმა in Georgian.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 86Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 910as Salima
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1Kas Salima
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 Saleema 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 named Salima, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Saleema in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Thai and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Salima in TZ Tanzania, MA Morocco, DZ Algeria and 2 more, Shalimar in IN India and Салима in 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saleema 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 | — | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 499 | Shalimar | 56 |
| TZ Tanzania | #117 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Salima | 15 |
| DZ Algeria | #214 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Salima | 39 |
| AF Afghanistan | #208 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Salima | 7 |
| MA Morocco | #389 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Salima | 60 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #212 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 907 | — | Салима | 15 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 86K | listed | Saleema | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,901as Salima | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Salima | 29 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Saleema Nawazb. 1979CACanadian writer (1979-)
- Saleema AmershiUSPh.D. University of Washington 2012
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Saleema a male or female name?
- Saleema is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Saleema?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Salima in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Tanzania, Algeria, Afghanistan and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Saleema?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,901 people named Salima, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Saleema compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Saleema is the 117th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saleema?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saleemaThe 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, “Saleema” — ranked 9195th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.