Salmah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAL-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Salmah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “safe, peaceful”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Salmah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Salma
“safe, peaceful”
From the Arabic root s-l-m, peace and safety, which also gives the names Salim and Salman and the word Islam.
Meaning borrowed from Salma. More on Wiktionary.
Is Salmah a girl's or a boy's name?
Salmah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Salmah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Salmah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 7 girls.
2025 had more girls named Salmah than any year since 2019.
In 2025, 66 girls in the UK were given Salmah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #592, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Salma 63
- Salmah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Salmah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
Names like Salmah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Sumayyah Farah Hibah Aaliyah Samah Zainab Safaa Nusaybah Umaymah Safiya Umamah
Other spellings of Salmah
Names related to Salmah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Salmah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/salmah, updated 20 October 2026.