Entry № 9098 · Arabic origin

Salama Salama — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-LAH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Peace / safety"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "peace / safety".

Salama is from the Swahili / Arabic سَلَامَة (Salāma — peace, safety, soundness). Salama is one of the Swahili + Arabic feminine names — central to traditional pan-African Muslim heritage.

Peace / safety (Swahili-Arabic).

The name in its native script.

سَلَامَة
Transliteration
Salāma
Pronunciation
/ səˈlɑː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Salama stands.

Salama does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Salamas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania capital + House of Peace.

Names connected to Salama.

The number behind Salama.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Salama reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.