Salamat
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sæləmɑːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salamat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Malay selamat (“safety”), or from Classical Persian سلامت (salāmat, “good health”), ultimately from Arabic سَلَامَة (salāma, “good health; safety”).
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 832(inferred from the name graph)
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 2.4K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 18K
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 Salamat 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 832 (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Саламат in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Şalamat in TM Turkmenistan.
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)
- Malayselamat“safety”(measured from records)
- Classical Persianسلامتsalāmat“good health”(measured from records)
- Arabicسَلَامَةsalāma“good health; safety”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Malay selamat (“safety”), or from Classical Persian سلامت (salāmat, “good health”), ultimately from Arabic سَلَامَة (salāma, “good health; safety”). In Classical Arabic, the ة character is not silent and read as /t/. Compare Aklanon saeamat.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salamat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Salamat | 33 |
| PK Pakistan | #335 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Salamat | 45 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #272 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 832 | — | Саламат | 17 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #650 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 4.7K | Саламат | 38 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Salamat | 9 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #349 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Şalamat | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 24 | 1 in 1.6M | 22 | — | 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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Salamat is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Iloko, synonym of agyamanak; thank you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nominative plural of salama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hnn, thanks; thank you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, safe and sound
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, thank you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mba, to thank
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.
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #287,369 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Salamat mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Malay selamat (“safety”), or from Classical Persian سلامت (salāmat, “good health”), ultimately from Arabic سَلَامَة (salāma, “good health; safety”). Recorded by Wiktionary and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Salamat?
- A machine transcription gives /sæləmɑːt/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Salamat a male or female name?
- Salamat is a male 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 Salamat?
- In the etymology graph, Souleymane and Shallum are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Salamat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Salamat in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salamat.
- How common is the name Salamat?
- In Poland, the national register counted 24 people named Salamat in 2026, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Salamat compared with other names?
- In Kyrgyzstan, Salamat is the 272nd most common given name of 146,885 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/salamatThe 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, “Salamat” — the 272nd most common given name in Kyrgyzstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.