girls:
9.7k births since 1918
#1622 (72nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2012
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1918
#2716 (65th percentile)
The name Salma is the #2,716 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,727 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 64.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,622 (71.6% percentile) for all time with 9,722 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2012.
Salma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 2012 for boys). Birth data for Salma is available in 52 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (52 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Salma has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Salma reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 44.4% percentile (ranked #493) with 227 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 227 births per million (ranked 44.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Salma ranks #664 for girls (29.9% percentile) with 169 births per million, which is 74.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Salma reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #900) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Salma".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Salma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.1% confident that Salma is pronounced as SAHL-muh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAL-muh, at 43.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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