Salima is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Salima in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Salima in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Salima by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Salima ranks at #7,343. That means there are 7,342 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Salima.
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 Salima. Girls named Salima have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,124 Salima ranked higher than ever before in 1976. By comparison, there have been 90 years in which the first name Salima 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 2004. In general, parents name their daughters Salima only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Salima was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Salima continues to be a precious jewel: 12 newborns were named Salima that year, ranking #7,418 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Salima, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a woman or girl named Salima is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Salima can be found in only two: New Jersey and New York. No other state currently has residents named Salima. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Salima living in one state or another (if your name is Salima and you live outside of New Jersey or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Salima is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00025% of all female residents are named Salima – that’s just one in 397,777! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 35 women with that name. So, if your name is Salima, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Salima is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Salima 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 Salima, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Salima
Salima
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
L
I
M
A
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
I
M
A
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. Salima sounds like this:
