Salima — #6215 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Salima

The Social Security Administration has registered 580 babies named Salima between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Salima currently holds the #6215 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Salima performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Salima shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Salima in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Salima 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 580 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.