Salome
About 5,624 American babies have been named Salome since 1880, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 1,040th. About 4,200 Salomes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Salome boys named Salome
Girls and boys called Salome
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 4,942 girls and 682 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 239 to 0.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 68 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,624
- Estimated living today
- 4,200
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 951st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,040th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 4,942 / 682
How old the living Salomes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,624 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,200 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 310 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek, from Hebrew
From Ancient Greek Σαλώμη, from Hebrew שְׁלוֹמִית (belonging to the same root as שָׁלוֹם (“peace”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Salomes
- Salome Zourabichvili (born 1952)President of Georgia and former diplomat
- Salomé (born 1939)Spanish singer
- Salome Alexandra (139 BC–66 BC)Queen regnant of Hasmonean Judaea from c.76 to 67 BCE
- Salome I (64 BC–10)sister of Herod the Great
- Salome Melia (born 1987)Georgian chess player
- Salome Jens (born 1935)American actress
- Salomé Ureña (1850–1897)Dominican poet and educator
- Salomé Stévenin (born 1985)French actress
People named Salome with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Salome is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Salome is most concentrated in Florida (6.6×), Texas (3.3×), New Jersey (2.1×), New York (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Salome peaked:
Salome elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Salomé +1 spelling | 29,195 | 71st |
| Switzerland girls | Salome +1 spelling | 1,958 | 55th |
| Belgium girls | Salomé +1 spelling | 1,105 | 172nd |
| England and Wales girls | Salome | 284 | 1,436th |
| France boys | Salomé | 25 | 6,166th |
| Poland girls | Salome +1 spelling | 13 birth registrations | 583rd |
| Ireland girls | Salome | 9 | 937th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Salome: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Salome | 1,344 | 0.108% | 40th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Salomé | 181 | 0.015% | 245th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Salomé | 384 | 0.088% | 59th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Salome | 34 | 0.008% | 123rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Salome | 7 | 0.011% | 118th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Salomé | 4 | 0.006% | 122nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Salome | 4 | 0.108% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Salome is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.19% of children were given it – 100 of them.
Salome: rank by region
In 2025, Salome was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Salomé | 96 | 26 |
In 2019, Salome was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Salome | 271 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Salome appears in the lists for Province of Liège (84th) and Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Salome by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 14 | 425th |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Salome among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Salome +1 spelling | 55 | 286 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Salome lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 5,609 women called Salome were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castellón/Castelló | Salome | 167 | 0.529 | 252 |
| Huelva | Salome | 115 | 0.424 | 305 |
| Asturias | Salome | 217 | 0.409 | 302 |
| Araba/Álava | Salome | 65 | 0.375 | 343 |
| Lugo | Salome | 56 | 0.334 | 348 |
| León | Salome | 76 | 0.331 | 384 |
Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Salome against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.