Salema — girls' name

What the Data Says About Salema

The Social Security Administration has registered 38 babies named Salema between 1973 and 1998, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Salema currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 7 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Salema performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Salema shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Salema in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 38 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.