Salima
About 598 American babies have been named Salima since 1969, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 6,546th. About 590 Salimas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Salima
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 598
- Estimated living today
- 590
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 5,619th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,546th
- First recorded
- 1969
How old the living Salimas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 598 babies given the name since 1969, about 590 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Salimas
- Salima Ghezali (born 1958)Algerian writer and journalist journalist
- Salima Mukansanga (born 1988)Rwandan football referee
- Salima Ikram (born 1965)Pakistani egyptologist
- Salima Sultan Begum (1539–1612)third wife of the Mughal Emperor Akbar
- Salima Souakri (born 1974)Algerian judoka
- Salima Machamba (1874–1964)last monarch (sultan/queen regnant) of Mohéli (Mwali)
People named Salima with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Salima is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Salima is most concentrated in New York (11.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular girls’ names the year Salima peaked:
Salima elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Salima | 6,595 | 197th |
| Belgium girls | Salima | 300 | 399th |
| England and Wales girls | Salima | 150 | 1,392nd |
| Poland girls | Salima | 2 birth registrations | 601st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Salima: rank by region
In 2019, Salima was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Salima | 800 | 5 |
In 2020, Salima was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Salima | 266 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Salima by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 548th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Salima among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Salima | 16 | 28 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Salima lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,901 women called Salima were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Salima | 123 | 2.841 | 73 |
| Ceuta | Salima | 26 | 0.628 | 290 |
| Girona | Salima | 120 | 0.290 | 399 |
| Tarragona | Salima | 109 | 0.249 | 433 |
| Almería | Salima | 76 | 0.201 | 474 |
| Murcia | Salima | 138 | 0.174 | 501 |
Listed in 43 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 9 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Salima against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.