Selam
Girl · seh-LAHM · Amharic
Selam is a girls' name of Amharic origin, meaning “peace”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Selam mean?
Amharic: Amharic and Tigrinya word, related to Arabic salam
“peace”
A common greeting in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the nickname of a 3.3-million-year-old fossil child found in Ethiopia in 2000.
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Is Selam a girl's or a boy's name?
Selam is a girls' name.
How popular is Selam in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
Half of all the girls named Selam in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Selam in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
Names like Selam
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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