Given name & surname
Salama
“one who is peaceful and safe”
Salama is used as a given name and a surname. One Egyptian interpretation is “one who is peaceful and safe.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Egyptian interpretation is “one who is peaceful and safe.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Egyptian.
How it developed
From Arabic سلامة (salāma, “good health”); its root is Arabic س ل م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Salama through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 47
- 0 boys · 47 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,839 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,839 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 291 as a first name in 2020; 2,241 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Salama’s family of names
Salama has a related form in Salma. Salama has a related form in Salamah. Salama has a related form in Salamma.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Salama
- Salama MoussaEgyptian newspaper editor (1887–1958)
- Salama ibn al-Akwa'Sahabah
- Salama IsmailEgyptian swimmerborn 1986
- Salama Hegazimusician (1852–1917)
- Salama bint Hamdan Al NahyanEmirati royal
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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