Given name
Salmah
“one who is healthy and safe”
Salmah is a variant of Salima. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is healthy and safe.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Salmah is a variant of Salima. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is healthy and safe.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Salmah is a variant of Salima. An origin associated with Salima is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Salmah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 59
- 0 boys · 59 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,623 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,623 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Salmah
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.