Salimatou — girls' name

What the Data Says About Salimatou

The Social Security Administration has registered 113 babies named Salimatou between 1999 and 2022, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Salimatou currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Salimatou performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 52 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Salimatou shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Salimatou in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Salimatou 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 113 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.