Salman

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Salman is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Bahrain it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: safe, mild, affable, perfect; name of a companion of the Prophet Muhammad.

rarermore common
  • BHBahrain1 in 238◐
  • QAQatar1 in 1.5K
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈8.8K ●

across 8 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
246 ●

336K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.1K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

SalmanLatin · Hindi●389K records
СалманCyrillic · Russian●24K records
ᲡალმანGeorgian · Georgian●470 records
সালমানBengali · Bangla●223 records
ΣαλμάνGreek · Greek●1 records
సలమనTelugu · Telugu●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Салман in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Solman in SE Sweden and Სალმან in GE Georgia.

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●

safe, mild, affable, perfect; name of a companion of the Prophet Muhammad

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Salman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#732512,082163K rec.—1.8KSalman171
BD Bangladesh#184162,1255.2K rec.—listedSalman92
PK Pakistan#13641,71910K rec.—listedSalman120
RU Russia#88822,35121K rec.—#344Салман117
SA Saudi Arabia#6614,6586.4K rec.——Salman152
IQ Iraq—7,9319.4K rec.——Salman54
GB United Kingdom—5,9045.1K rec.—3Salman103
TR Türkiye—5,5979.9K rec.——Salman49
US United States—3,88349K rec.1 in 86K15KSalman246
AE United Arab Emirates#1073,0463.2K rec.——Salman116
AU Australia—2,9454.3K rec.—1Salman108
DE Germany—2,8695.2K rec.—listedSalman105

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Languages●

  • Hindi389K36%
  • Indonesian142K13%
  • English129K12%
  • Bangla97K9%
  • Arabic77K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi389,07036%
Indonesian141,65013%
English129,19912%
Bangla96,9339%
Arabic77,3807%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Salman is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name168K records spelled Salman12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Salman, Salman', Šälmän, Sãlmãn, Śãlmãñ

  • Turkish given name147K records spelled Salman17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Салман, Şalman, Şăļmáń, Šalmän, Şalmán

  • French given name34K records spelled Salman39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Brazil

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Salmán, Salmân, Salmān, Sálmàn, Salmãn

  • a separate given name25K records spelled Salman3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Iraq

    Also written Salmān, Śalman

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name2.6K records spelled Salman3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

    Also written Salmän

  • Finnish given name2.4K records spelled Salman5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Salmañ, Sãlmãñ, Šalman

  • Thai given name2.2K records spelled Salman13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Sanman, ชาลมานี, ชาลมาน, Šăľmăñ, ซัลส์มันน์

  • Polish given name1.6K records spelled Salman4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Şalman, Saľmañ, Sålmaņ

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Salman is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, from a title/occupation 'property mediator, trustee, guardian'; also northern German from Saal/Saale, and Jewish from Solomon

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, Germanic form related to Salomo on the model of native names

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Turkish, Başıboş, serbest, özgür.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In French, altération du nom allemand Zellmann, de Zell, nom de plusieurs localités en Allemagne, et mann « homme »

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • In Arabic, safe

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200012K · 1993

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Salman in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1894–2015
Yearrecords
18941
189910
19001
19171
19182
19191
19203
19212
19222
192316
19243
19252
19261
19271
19294
19301
19313
19322
19332
19343
19351
19365
19372
19381
19395
19406
19415
19427
19435
19443
19459
19465
19476
19484
19498
195012
195115
195226
195310
195423
195516
195618
195734
195826
195929
196046
196126
196271
196343
196457
196559
196674
196773
1968164
196979
1970106
197199
1972118
1973135
1974119
1975136
1976221
1977152
1978204
1979199
1980245
1981308
1982443
1983568
1984813
1985896
19861,150
19871,718
19882,549
19893,551
19905,449
19918,543
199210,615
199311,731
19949,126
19957,930
19963,448
19972,858
19981,936
199953
20001
20071
20085
20106
20113
20121
20131
201471
2015320

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 years between 1894–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Salman the Persian, b. 568Salman II of Bahrain, b. 1894Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, b. 1935Salmaan Taseer, b. 1944Salman Rushdie, b. 1947Salman Khurshid, b. 1953Salman Khan, b. 1965Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, b. 1969Sal Khan, b. 1976Salman Al-Faraj, b. 1989

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 85 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Salman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.3K#7,538
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.9K#4,675
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.3K#13,221
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,710
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.4K#1,330
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241K#674
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—943#2,962
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—934#1,721
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—736#1,592
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020631—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—459#9,792
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—456—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 602 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Salman?
We estimate roughly 8.8 thousand people bear Salman (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Salman have the most bearers?
Salman is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled salman.
How common is Salman compared with other names?
In India, Salman is the 732nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Salman a male or female name?
Salman is a male 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.
What does the name Salman mean?
Recorded meaning: safe, mild, affable, perfect; name of a companion of the Prophet Muhammad
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Salman” — the 732nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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