Name meaning & stats
Salma
Salma means “peace” (Arabic origin). 10,310 US babies since 1940, peak 1999.
What it means
“peace”
ArabicWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1999
10,310 US babies were named Salma between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Salma (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 85% of the family
- Salma 85%
- Salima 5%
- Saloma 5%
- Salimah 2%
- Saleema 2%
- Saleemah 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1999)