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How popular is the name Salma?
Births per year, rank history and how many Salmas are alive today.
Salma (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 622nd in 2025 with 63 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2007, when 142 babies were given the name, the 319th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 894 in 2020 before climbing back to the 622nd place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Salma you are most likely to meet is around 18 years old. Half of all Salmas born in England and Wales are between 13 and 27, and there are at least 3,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1% chance that at least one of them will be called Salma.
How many babies are named Salma each year?
Where does Salma rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Salma most popular?
Salma peaked in 2007, when 142 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Salma?
At least 3,200 people named Salma born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Salma?
Most living Salmas are between 13 and 27; the most common age is about 18.
Is Salma becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.