Salimah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sah-LEE-mah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Salimah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “safe, sound, unharmed”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Salimah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Salima; feminine of Salim
“safe, sound, unharmed”
Feminine of Salim, from the Arabic root s-l-m 'peace, safety', shared with salaam and Islam.
Meaning borrowed from Salima.
Is Salimah a girl's or a boy's name?
Salimah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Salimah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Salimah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1998, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1969.
Half of all the girls named Salimah in the US since 1880 were born between 1984 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Salimah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,099 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,263 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,149 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,045 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,467 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,126 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,188 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,562 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,213 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,469 |
Names like Salimah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Safiya, Farah, Hadassah, Safa, Samiyah, Sumayyah, Zainab, Samira, Farrah, Nusaybah, Safia
Names related to Salimah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Salimah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/salimah, updated 20 October 2026.