Salmah
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salmah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script.
- MYMalaysia1 in 1.9K◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 75K
- LYLibya1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈18 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 70 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
12K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #90 | 35,061 | 9.2K rec. | — | 4K | Salmah | 36 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,203 | 473 rec. | — | listed | Salmah | 70 |
| PH Philippines | — | 459 | 407 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | 403 | 414 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 14 |
| US United States | — | 351 | 339 rec. | — | 6 | Salmah | 39 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 317 | 374 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 111 | 85 rec. | — | listed | Salmah | 22 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 94 | 52 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | 76 | 73 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 18 |
| LY Libya | — | 73 | 73 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 4 |
| IN India | — | 66 | 87 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 63 | 74 rec. | — | — | Salmah | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay16K41%
- English11K29%
- Indonesian3.9K10%
- Arabic3.2K8%
- Swahili1.3K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 16,280 | 41% |
| English | 11,487 | 29% |
| Indonesian | 3,912 | 10% |
| Arabic | 3,210 | 8% |
| Swahili | 1,344 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 10 years between 1999–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Salmah Ibrahimb. 1931MYActress
- Salomab. 1935MYnot in their usual nameSingapore-Malaysian singer and actress (1935-1983)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON) | — | 4K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #34,464 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #51,596 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #50,882 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #74,913 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Salmah?
- We estimate roughly 18 people bear Salmah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Salmah have the most bearers?
- Salmah is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled salmah.
- How common is Salmah compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Salmah is the 90th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Salmah a male or female name?
- Salmah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Salmah” — the 90th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.