Entry № 9109 · Aramaic origin

Salome Salome — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-LOH-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Aramaic
Meaning
"Peace"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Aramaic)

A name that means "peace".

Salome (שָׁלוֹם, σαλώμη) comes from the Hebrew/Aramaic shalom, meaning "peace" — the most common Hebrew greeting. The biblical Salome is the daughter of Herodias whose dance led to John the Baptist's beheading; another Salome was a follower of Jesus.

Salome was popular in early Christianity and rose again in the early 20th century with Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1893) and Richard Strauss's opera.

Peace. The Hebrew greeting, in the New Testament.

The name in its native script.

שָׁלוֹם
Transliteration
Shālōm
Pronunciation
/ səˈloʊ.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Salome stands.

Salome 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.

Salomes before her.

Real people
Salome Zourabichvili
President of Georgia 2018–2024.
born 1952
In fiction
Salome
Daughter of Herodias in the New Testament.
New Testament
Salomé
Heroine of Oscar Wilde's 1893 play.
1893 play

Names connected to Salome.

The number behind Salome.

2

The Peacemaker

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