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Salma vs Saloma

American parents have registered 10,316 Salmas since 1880, against 714 Salomas. Salma is still ahead, with 278 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Salma against Saloma, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Salma Saloma

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 81 years in which either name was published, Salma for 52 years and Saloma for 29 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Salma Saloma
Total US births 10,316714
Most in one year 44224
Babies in 2025 27820
Estimated living today 10,000580
Median age today 1618
Peak year 19992023
Best rank 569th girls5,248th girls
Rank in 2025 936th5,917th
First recorded 19181888
Girls / boys 10,311 / 5714 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Salomas alive today are over 18; half the Salmas are over 16. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Salma and Saloma.