Salimata
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sah-lee-MAH-tah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Salimata is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “safe, sound”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Salimata mean?
Arabic: West African form of Salima
“safe, sound”
A form of Salima used in Mali, Guinea, Senegal and other Mande-speaking parts of West Africa.
Is Salimata a girl's or a boy's name?
Salimata is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Salimata in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,883rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 120,000 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, 13 girls in the US were named Salimata, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had the most girls named Salimata of any year since it first appeared, in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Salimata in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Salimata in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
Nicknames for Salimata
- Sali 3 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Salimata
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zahara, Safiya, Salma, Samira, Aaliyah, Fatoumata, Sama, Hafsa, Amira, Rahma, Samiyah
Names related to Salimata
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Salimata: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/salimata, updated 20 October 2026.