Salam is a name for all genders, somewhat more commonly used for girls.
At least in the US, the name Salam is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Salam each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Salam will meet someone with the same name. So, Salam is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Salam. Children named Salam have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 7,778 Salam ranked higher than ever before in 1993. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Salam has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2014. In general, parents name their babies Salam only once in a blue moon, so kids and adults with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Salam was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Salam continues to be a precious jewel: 7 newborns were named Salam that year, ranking #20,242 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Salam, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a real popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common frist names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, J and K are more common for first names.
With five letters, the name Salam is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.7% of all first names start with an S, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Salam and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Salam, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Lion
Apple
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Salam
Salam
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
L
A
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
L
A
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Salam sounds like this:
