Salimatou
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-lee-ma-TOO
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Salimatou is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “safe, sound”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Salimatou mean?
Arabic: West African form of Salimah
“safe, sound”
West African form of Salimah, from Arabic salima, to be safe and unharmed.
Is Salimatou a girl's or a boy's name?
Salimatou is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Salimatou in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 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, 11 girls in the US were named Salimatou, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had more girls named Salimatou than any year since 2010.
Half of all the girls named Salimatou in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Salimatou in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Salimatou
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Safiya, Samiyah, Zainab, Zaniyah, Fatou, Zahara, Safia, Sariyah, Fatoumata, Salma
Names related to Salimatou
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, “Salimatou: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/salimatou, updated 20 October 2026.