girls:
4.4k births since 1880
#2561 (55th percentile)
boys:
682 births since 1910
#3905 (15th percentile)
overall:
5.1k births since 1880
#3823 (51st percentile)
The name Salome is the #3,823 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,107 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 50.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,561 (55.2% percentile) for all time with 4,425 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,905 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 682 births since 1910.
Salome has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1910 for boys). Birth data for Salome is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for girls and 83 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 Salome has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Salome were girls.
For girls, Salome reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 22.8% percentile (ranked #731) with 126 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 126 births per million (ranked 22.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Salome is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #731 (22.8% percentile) with 126 births per million.
For boys, Salome reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #543) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Salome".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Salome. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.0% confident that Salome is pronounced as suh-LOH-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-LOH-may, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 L OW1 M IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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