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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Salma is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#194 · 1 in 818
- New York#438 · 1 in 2,139
- Massachusetts#442 · 1 in 2,123
- Ohio#555 · 1 in 2,893
- Michigan#585 · 1 in 3,005
Best ever in a state: #175 in Minnesota, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #194 | 30 | 1 in 818 |
| New York | #438 | 42 | 1 in 2,139 |
| Massachusetts | #442 | 12 | 1 in 2,123 |
| Ohio | #555 | 18 | 1 in 2,893 |
| Michigan | #585 | 14 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Illinois | #589 | 20 | 1 in 2,881 |
| Texas | #614 | 53 | 1 in 3,156 |
| New Jersey | #615 | 12 | 1 in 3,048 |
| Florida | #672 | 24 | 1 in 3,613 |
| Virginia | #708 | 10 | 1 in 3,714 |
| Colorado | #712 | 7 | 1 in 3,366 |
| Tennessee | #759 | 8 | 1 in 3,880 |
| Arizona | #774 | 8 | 1 in 3,868 |
| Indiana | #821 | 7 | 1 in 4,328 |
| California | #848 | 41 | 1 in 4,969 |
| Washington | #869 | 7 | 1 in 4,592 |
| Georgia | #912 | 10 | 1 in 4,805 |
| North Carolina | #913 | 9 | 1 in 5,034 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 4,603 of them was named Salma, which outranked 96.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).