Shalma
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shalma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script.
- BDBangladesh1 in 95◐
- SESweden1 in 709
- TZTanzania1 in 822
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈160K ●
- #672 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 247 ●
- 1 in 709 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
336K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salma in BD Bangladesh, IN India, BR Brazil and 19 more and ซัลมา in TH Thailand.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #7 | 2,997,588 | 4.1K rec. | — | listed | Salma | 82 |
| IN India | #405 | 844,192 | 254K rec. | — | 91 | Salma | 114 |
| BR Brazil | — | 94,743△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 2.2K | 102K | Salma | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | #223 | 25,716 | 726 rec. | — | listed | Salma | 61 |
| TZ Tanzania | #38 | 16,111 | 6.2K rec. | — | — | Salma | 33 |
| MA Morocco | #86 | 15,599 | 16K rec. | — | — | Salma | 79 |
| SE Sweden | #796 | 14,394△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 709 | 14K | Salma | 18 |
| US United States | — | 12,268 | 24K rec. | 1 in 27K | 12K | Salma | 247 |
| FR France | — | 12,200△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 12K | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 12,012△ | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 4.2K | 12K | Salma | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,937 | 4.5K rec. | — | listed | Salma | 113 |
| JO Jordan | #112 | 5,836 | 0 rec. | — | — | Salma | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi15K78%
- Bangla1.3K7%
- Indonesian8254%
- English6824%
- Spanish4993%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 14,800 | 78% |
| Bangla | 1,265 | 7% |
| Indonesian | 825 | 4% |
| English | 682 | 4% |
| Spanish | 499 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1906 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 4 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 3 |
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1933 | 2 |
| 1934 | 4 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1936 | 6 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 4 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 7 |
| 1942 | 19 |
| 1943 | 13 |
| 1944 | 11 |
| 1945 | 9 |
| 1946 | 14 |
| 1947 | 22 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1949 | 12 |
| 1950 | 14 |
| 1951 | 19 |
| 1952 | 19 |
| 1953 | 18 |
| 1954 | 23 |
| 1955 | 29 |
| 1956 | 31 |
| 1957 | 33 |
| 1958 | 39 |
| 1959 | 55 |
| 1960 | 42 |
| 1961 | 52 |
| 1962 | 77 |
| 1963 | 61 |
| 1964 | 78 |
| 1965 | 77 |
| 1966 | 72 |
| 1967 | 90 |
| 1968 | 75 |
| 1969 | 102 |
| 1970 | 88 |
| 1971 | 96 |
| 1972 | 115 |
| 1973 | 92 |
| 1974 | 76 |
| 1975 | 96 |
| 1976 | 92 |
| 1977 | 128 |
| 1978 | 125 |
| 1979 | 114 |
| 1980 | 91 |
| 1981 | 128 |
| 1982 | 147 |
| 1983 | 172 |
| 1984 | 147 |
| 1985 | 144 |
| 1986 | 137 |
| 1987 | 152 |
| 1988 | 129 |
| 1989 | 131 |
| 1990 | 106 |
| 1991 | 124 |
| 1992 | 139 |
| 1993 | 123 |
| 1994 | 79 |
| 1995 | 61 |
| 1996 | 42 |
| 1997 | 46 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 2008 | 14 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 7 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1906–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 123 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shalma?
- We estimate roughly 160 thousand people bear Shalma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shalma have the most bearers?
- Shalma is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled salma.
- How common is Shalma compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shalma is the 7th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Shalma a male or female name?
- Shalma 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, “Shalma” — the 7th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.