Salima
Salima was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,784 among girls’ names; 598 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Salima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Salima?
#6,784 among girls’ names, 2025
Salima rose from #8,356 in 2015 to #6,784 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 10.6 per million.
22 babies in 2018, the peak
Salima peaked in 2018, when 22 girls were given it, #5,753 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,784 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,119 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,624 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,956 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,957 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,434 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,337 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,753 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,773 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,691 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,356 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,800 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,687 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,608 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,407 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,688 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,798 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,443 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,167 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,630 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,826 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,565 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,345 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,949 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,735 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,337 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,070 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,821 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,002 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,506 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,438 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,513 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,922 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,459 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,200 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,591 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,255 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,859 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,601 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,142 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,080 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,876 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,183 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,750 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,476 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,770 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,142 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,806 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,502 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,339 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,487 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,258 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,022 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,196 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,027 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,269 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Salima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Salima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Salima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Salima, and how old are they?
An estimated 585 Americans named Salima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 11 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,602 people named Salima (1,597 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 17,794 babies since 1880, Salima is the fourth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 565 babies (3.0%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Salima
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Salima and names like it
- Compare Salima and SalmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Salima.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Salima alive today were born 2013-2025.
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