Salma — #870 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Salma

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,032 babies named Salma between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Salma currently holds the #870 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 442 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Salma performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 3,488 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Salma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,852 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Salma in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Salma 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 10,032 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.