- Meaning
- Safe, peaceful
- Arabic
- سلمى
- Say it
- SAL-maa
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Arabic
- In the Quran
- Not in the Quran
Famous people with this name
- Salma bint Amr, great-grandmother of the Prophet
Other spellings
Selma, Salmah
Names from the same root (س ل م)
Related names
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Questions about Salma
What does Salma mean?
Salma means: Safe, peaceful.
Is Salma in the Quran?
No. But a name does not need to be in the Quran to be a good Muslim name: what matters is that its meaning is good.
Is Salma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Salma is a girl’s name.
How do you write Salma in Arabic?
In Arabic script, Salma is written سلمى.