Salama

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Salama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname. Recorded meaning: peace, safety, security; fem.of Salam a5U..

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 5.3K
  • SYSyria≈1 in 6.1K

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.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

Sources
208 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Šãlãmã in LY Libya.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

peace, safety, security; fem.of Salam a5U.. Salama b. Mas‘ud: a sahaabia

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Salama 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.

Where Salama is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#49≈100,000 est.≈1 in 1K—Salama160
SA Saudi Arabia#482≈5,200 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Salama82
MA Morocco#539≈3,600 est.≈1 in 9.8KlistedSalama45
SY Syria#423≈3,200 est.≈1 in 6.1K—Salama21
LY Libya—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Šãlãmã27
US United States—1,6131 in 206K2.2KSalama208
KW Kuwait#314≈570 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Salama35

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Salama is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Salamah, সালামা, Sālāma, Sālamā

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Salamá, Sàlàma, Sālamā, Salāmā, Šălămă

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sälämä, Sâlãmâ

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Sālāma, Sālamā, Salāma, Salâma

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Šãlāḿà

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Salama 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, security; feminine of Salam

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • from Solomon, who loves peace

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Arabic, peace; fem. of Salam ,L.. Salamah ibn ‘Amr ibn al-Akwa‘: a sahaabi.**°

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, peace; fem. of Salam aL... Umm Salama: See Umm

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, peace; feminine of Salam

    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)

190019502000Aune Salama, b. 1908Nabih Salama, b. 1908Hannu Salama, b. 1936Peter Salama, b. 1968Fathy Salama, b. 1969Amro Salama, b. 1970Amr Salama, b. 1982Sarah Ahmed Salama, b. 1992Amine Salama, b. 2000

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 69 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Salama
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.2K#13,088
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,472
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001K#23,087

Reference works 10

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 Salama mean?
Recorded meaning: peace, safety, security; fem.of Salam a5U..
Where does the name Salama come from?
peace, safety, security; fem.of Salam a5U.. Salama b. Mas‘ud: a sahaabia Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
What are other forms of the name Salama?
In the etymology graph, Solomon, Sulaiman and Salamon are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Salama have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Salama in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salama.
How common is the name Salama?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,613 people named Salama in 2010, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
How common is Salama compared with other names?
In Egypt, Salama is the 49th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Salama” — the 49th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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