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Salmah name meaning

“safe”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1950s: 6.6%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s6.6%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
4

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Salmah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: SMeaning protectionArabic origin

Salmah is a girl's name from Arabic, the Malay spelling of Salmā, meaning 'safe'.

What does Salmah mean?

Safe

In Malay: selamat

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Sources (2)

About the name Salmah

Salmah is the Malay spelling of the Arabic name Salmā (سلمى). It means 'safe', from the verb salima, 'to be safe', built on the root s-l-m. The spelling Salma is also used. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 3,961 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootس ل م · s-l-m
SyllablesSal-mah
First letterMalay Names starting with S
Arabic scriptسلمى

Salmah in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Girl: 3,961 · 6.6%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Salmah as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Salmah

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: سلمى · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Salma · behindthename.com · meaning

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