Entry № 9316 · Amharic origin

Selamawit Selamawit — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ seh-lah-MAH-wit /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Amharic
Meaning
"Peace (Amharic-Ethiopian)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Amharic)

A name that means "peace (amharic-ethiopian)".

Selamawit (ሰላማዊት) is the Amharic word for "peaceful one" — feminine form of selam (peace). A widely used Ethiopian feminine name.

Selamawit Yohannes (born 1979) is the Ethiopian long-distance runner.

Peace. The Amharic.

The name in its native script.

ሰላማዊት
Transliteration
Salāmāwit
Pronunciation
/ ˌsɛ.lɑːˈmɑː.wɪt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Selamawit stands.

Selamawit 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.

Selamawits before her.

Real people
Selamawit Yohannes
Ethiopian distance runner.
born 1979
In fiction
Selamawit
Common in Ethiopian fiction.

Names connected to Selamawit.

The number behind Selamawit.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Selamawit reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.