Taslima
given name · Latin script
Meaning: greeting, salutation; fem
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/təzlɪmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taslima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 519K
- OMOman≈1 in 51K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈87,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
greeting, salutation; fem. of Taslim. See Taslim (m.)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taslima 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #57 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 641K | Taslima | 75 |
| US United States | — | 641 | 1 in 519K | 635 | Taslima | 101 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Taslima | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 474K | 5 | Taslima | 53 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Taslima | 11 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Taslima | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Taslima | 1 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Taslima | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 9 | 1 in 83K | 9 | — | 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: This page lists the most common names in Bangladesh, published on WorldNames.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Taslima 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 Arabic, greeting; salutation; feminine of Taslim
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Taslima Nasrinb. 1962BDauthor, secular humanist, and feminist
- Taslima Akhterb. 1974BDBangladeshi activist and photographer
- Taslima Ahmedb. 1982GBBritish artist (1982-)
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 635 | #17,286 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #585 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #17,286 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Taslima come from?
- greeting, salutation; fem. of Taslim. See Taslim (m.) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Taslima?
- A machine transcription gives /təzlɪmə/ (IPA) for Bangla.
- What does the name Taslima mean?
- Recorded meaning: greeting, salutation; fem.
- Is Taslima a male or female name?
- Taslima 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.
- What are other forms of the name Taslima?
- In the etymology graph, Salome, Shulammite and Shulamite are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Taslima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Taslima in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taslima.
- How common is the name Taslima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 641 people named Taslima in 2020, about 1 in 519 thousand residents.
- How common is Taslima compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Taslima is the 57th most common given name of 29,323 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/taslimaThe 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, “Taslima” — the 57th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.