Salma
#936 for girls in 2025, 278 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 442 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,311since 1918
Salma over time
Rank among girls' names. Salma has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #936 | 278 | — | |
| 2024 | #871 | 310 | — | |
| 2023 | #905 | 295 | — | |
| 2022 | #895 | 311 | — | |
| 2021 | #919 | 290 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,046 | 240 | — | |
| 2019 | #916 | 289 | — | |
| 2018 | #801 | 340 | — | |
| 2017 | #765 | 362 | — | |
| 2016 | #738 | 385 | — | |
| 2015 | #802 | 351 | — | |
| 2014 | #883 | 309 | — | |
| 2013 | #825 | 324 | — | |
| 2012 | #785 | 348 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #842 | 313 | — | |
| 2010 | #883 | 300 | — | |
| 2009 | #784 | 360 | — | |
| 2008 | #848 | 332 | — | |
| 2007 | #822 | 349 | — | |
| 2006 | #758 | 362 | — | |
| 2005 | #749 | 358 | — | |
| 2004 | #812 | 309 | — | |
| 2003 | #692 | 377 | — | |
| 2002 | #759 | 318 | — | |
| 2001 | #684 | 364 | — | |
| 2000 | #672 | 359 | — | |
| 1999 | #569 | 442 | — | |
| 1998 | #570 | 430 | — | |
| 1997 | #734 | 291 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,565 | 101 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,552 | 49 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,353 | 55 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,639 | 46 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,830 | 42 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,843 | 41 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | — | |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | — | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Salma! It came in at #4,291, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1971, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Salma
- 65 spots since 2024 (#871 → #936)
- 110 spots since 2020 (#1,046 → #936)
- 134 spots since 2015 (#802 → #936)
- Biggest jump: 831 spots in 1997 (#1,565 → #734)
- Biggest drop: 130 spots in 2020 (#916 → #1,046)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1999 at #569 (442 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1997–2019
- Highest: 1 in 4,013 girls born in 1999 were named Salma (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,782 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 33.8% of all girls named Salma (3,488) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #4,291 (1918) | #4,291 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 59 | #4,931 (1978) | #6,845 |
| 1980s | 178 | #3,554 (1986) | #4,555 |
| 1990s | 1,535 | #569 (1999) | #1,961 |
| 2000s | 3,488 | #672 (2000) | #758 |
| 2010s | 3,321 | #738 (2016) | #824 |
| 2020s | 1,724 | #871 (2024) | #929 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Salma in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 5,060 of them was named Salma, which outranked 96.0% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 379,389 of them was named Salma, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,274; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.