Taslima

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●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Taslima is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name824 records spelled Taslima5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, India, United States, Spain

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Täslïmä

• Russian given name156 records spelled Taslima10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Таслима, Тасліма, Taşlima

• Turkish given name59 records spelled Taslima4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Russia, Turkmenistan

  Also written Taşlima

41 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●

Taslima is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Arabic, greeting; salutation; feminine of Taslim

  as a name·A 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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Taslima Nasrinb. 1962BDauthor, secular humanist, and feminist
• Taslima Akhterb. 1974BDBangladeshi activist and photographer
• Taslima Ahmedb. 1982GBBritish artist (1982-)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 204 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Taslima?

We estimate roughly 735 people bear Taslima (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Taslima have the most bearers?

Taslima is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled taslima.

How common is Taslima compared with other names?

In Bangladesh, Taslima is the 6th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.

Is Taslima a male or female name?

Taslima 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.

What does the name Taslima mean?

Recorded meaning: greeting, salutation; fem.