Salaam
loc · Latin script
Meaning: peace; also one of the divine names
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Salaam is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
peace; also one of the divine names
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salaam counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 2.9K | Salaam | 28 |
| US United States | — | 1.6K | — | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 78 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 15 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 9 | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Salaam is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Peace, safety, well-being.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, good; peace
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, peaceful
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
peace
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In English, A respectful ceremonial greeting used mostly in Islamic countries.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Abdul Salaamb. 1953USAmerican football player
- Salaam Remib. 1972USAmerican record producer from New York
- Rashaan Salaamb. 1974USAll-American college football player, professional football player, running back, Heisman Trophy winner (1974-2016)
- Yusef Salaamb. 1974USAmerican activist, inspirational speaker, and poet
- Ephraim Salaamb. 1976USAmerican football player
- Rakieem Salaamb. 1990USAmerican sprinter
- Josue Salaamb. 1994USbasketball player
- Mulikat SalaamNGNigerian university librarian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Salaam mean, and where does it come from?
- peace; also one of the divine names Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Salaam have the most bearers?
- Salaam is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled salaam.
What do you want to know about Salaam?
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/salaamThe 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, “Salaam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.