Saloma
Saloma was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,075 among girls’ names; 714 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saloma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saloma?
#6,075 among girls’ names, 2025
Saloma rose from #7,545 in 2015 to #6,075 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 12.4 per million.
24 babies in 2023, the peak
Saloma peaked in 2023, when 24 girls were given it, #5,353 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,075 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,891 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,353 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,572 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,571 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,044 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,963 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,356 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,044 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,542 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,545 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,411 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,976 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,308 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,037 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,237 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,992 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,967 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,689 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,795 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,209 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,701 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,825 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,724 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,630 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,158 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,119 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,921 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,213 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,681 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,946 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,065 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,359 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,923 | 6.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,368 | 5.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,040 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,573 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,351 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,677 | 5.9 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,050 | 4.7 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,807 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,751 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,934 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,242 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,852 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,935 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,190 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,605 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,954 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,729 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,635 | 3.1 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,559 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,822 | 4.7 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,853 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,144 | 4.4 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,821 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,654 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,949 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,595 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,728 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,993 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,215 | 4.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,736 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,132 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,623 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,321 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,365 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,497 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,274 | 34.5 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,005 | 18.9 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,449 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saloma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saloma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saloma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saloma, and how old are they?
An estimated 577 Americans named Saloma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 605 people named Saloma (603 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 484 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above 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, Saloma is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 565 babies (3.5%), again the third 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.
More about Saloma and names like it
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