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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Salma

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#937

down −65 places

2025 births

278

down −32 births

All-time births

10,311

3% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1999
442 births
Best rank
#569
in 1999
First recorded
1918
#4,738 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2009
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
54 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1999442#569Peak
  2. 1998430#571
  3. 2016385#740
  4. 2003377#694
  5. 2001364#684

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #569 in 1999 · peak births 442 in 1999

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

5 boys · 10,311 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Salma has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.