Salimah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mild; healthy; protected;
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries
/salimah/(machine-generated) Malay · model-generated
Salimah is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- LYLibya≈1 in 9.4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 33K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 120Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Libya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)mild; healthy; protected;
Cited for this meaning 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salimah 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 119K | listed | Salimah | 70 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Salimah | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 281K | listed | — | 2 |
| LY Libya | #501 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Salimah | 8 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Salimah | 10 |
| US United States | — | 355 | 1 in 937K | 353 | Salimah | 78 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 134K | listed | Salimah | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Salimah | 8 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Salimah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Stones, tender,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
To make
as a nameDictionary of Islamic 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.
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Salimah mean, and where does it come from?
- mild; healthy; protected; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Salimah?
- It depends on the language: in Malay /salimah/; in Indonesian /salˈimah/; in Swahili /salimah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Salimah a male or female name?
- Salimah is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Salimah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Salimah in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salimah.
- How common is the name Salimah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 355 people named Salimah in 2020, about 1 in 937 thousand residents.
- How common is Salimah compared with other names?
- In Libya, Salimah is the 501st most common given name of 8,449 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salimahThe 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, “Salimah” — the 501st most common given name in Libya. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.