Salome Forename
2,236th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 455,211 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Tanzania
Highest density in:
Solomon Islands
Salome Forename Definition:
A female name. a hellenized form of Hebrew shalem ‘perfect’, a favourite name in the Herod family. Salome was also the name of one of the women who ministered to Jesus who was first at the sepulchre on Easter morning. It has been used as a christian name since the 17th C.
Read More About This ForenameSalome Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzania | 100% | 142,111 | 1:371 | 46 |
| Kenya | 100% | 51,024 | 1:908 | 185 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 39,861 | 1:4,455 | 752 |
| Philippines | 98% | 23,320 | 1:4,546 | 772 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 21,591 | 1:3,419 | 490 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 19,427 | 1:1,112 | 226 |
| South Africa | 100% | 16,623 | 1:3,281 | 617 |
| Mexico | 52% | 16,516 | 1:7,517 | 750 |
| Georgia | 97% | 16,197 | 1:231 | 38 |
| Malawi | 100% | 14,785 | 1:1,157 | 242 |
| Zambia | - | 8,461 | 1:1,874 | 355 |
| Peru | 83% | 7,416 | 1:4,287 | 671 |
| Uganda | 100% | 6,535 | 1:6,267 | 729 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 6,361 | 1:1,667 | 386 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 6,233 | 1:1,308 | 153 |
| Ghana | 100% | 5,450 | 1:4,952 | 629 |
| United States | 84% | 5,277 | 1:68,701 | 3,462 |
| Spain | 99% | 3,641 | 1:12,779 | 876 |
| Angola | 100% | 3,104 | 1:8,688 | 1,063 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 2,619 | 1:222 | 29 |
| Guatemala | 77% | 2,276 | 1:7,078 | 744 |
| Zimbabwe | 98% | 1,947 | 1:7,922 | 1,126 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,826 | 1:117,325 | 6,198 |
| Argentina | 92% | 1,754 | 1:24,386 | 1,017 |
| Benin | 100% | 1,533 | 1:6,899 | 1,062 |
| Burkina Faso | 98% | 1,411 | 1:13,026 | 1,310 |
| Fiji | - | 1,352 | 1:660 | 101 |
| Chad | 83% | 1,298 | 1:10,476 | 1,671 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,296 | 1:199,046 | 19,256 |
| Colombia | 100% | 1,281 | 1:37,298 | 1,941 |
| Chile | 95% | 1,268 | 1:13,886 | 905 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 1,055 | 1:184,225 | 6,416 |
| Namibia | - | 1,048 | 1:2,294 | 426 |
| Honduras | 100% | 1,046 | 1:8,430 | 901 |
| Abkhazia | 99% | 1,017 | 1:239 | 48 |
| Israel | 91% | 960 | 1:8,753 | 1,174 |
| Liberia | 99% | 874 | 1:5,048 | 597 |
| Portugal | - | 867 | 1:12,008 | 681 |
| Yemen | - | 861 | 1:30,542 | 1,051 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 715 | 1:29,090 | 3,562 |
| England | 100% | 704 | 1:78,981 | 3,218 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 668 | 1:12,296 | 1,101 |
| Germany | 100% | 658 | 1:146,927 | 2,626 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 635 | 1:47,562 | 2,875 |
| El Salvador | - | 576 | 1:11,010 | 786 |
| Botswana | 98% | 549 | 1:3,979 | 692 |
| Vanuatu | - | 530 | 1:494 | 113 |
| Jamaica | - | 526 | 1:5,481 | 837 |
| India | 100% | 521 | 1:2,331,820 | 115,637 |
| Ecuador | - | 496 | 1:35,740 | 1,515 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 494 | 1:21,116 | 1,948 |
| France | 100% | 475 | 1:139,938 | 2,671 |
| Ivory Coast | 94% | 456 | 1:50,605 | 3,737 |
| Nicaragua | 71% | 384 | 1:15,673 | 1,335 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 350 | 1:88,036 | 9,509 |
| Panama | 100% | 329 | 1:11,874 | 1,473 |
| Russia | 100% | 279 | 1:516,967 | 5,591 |
| Cuba | - | 237 | 1:48,551 | 1,524 |
| Canada | - | 233 | 1:142,203 | 6,248 |
| Oman | 100% | 229 | 1:17,942 | 1,582 |
| Mali | 100% | 221 | 1:76,822 | 3,384 |
| Paraguay | 96% | 183 | 1:39,545 | 1,708 |
| Tonga | - | 151 | 1:711 | 162 |
| Iraq | 100% | 150 | 1:233,452 | 3,757 |
| Guyana | 100% | 146 | 1:5,228 | 946 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 145 | 1:116,566 | 5,631 |
| Costa Rica | 90% | 143 | 1:33,342 | 1,780 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 136 | 1:52,588 | 4,682 |
| South Ossetia | 96% | 132 | 1:406 | 116 |
| Thailand | 100% | 125 | 1:560,527 | 25,619 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 110 | 1:12,377 | 1,743 |
| Greece | 100% | 109 | 1:100,317 | 2,695 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 102 | 1:298,529 | 15,267 |
| Belize | 100% | 79 | 1:4,485 | 927 |
| Sweden | 100% | 78 | 1:126,383 | 5,084 |
| Jordan | 97% | 74 | 1:119,281 | 2,193 |
| New Zealand | - | 69 | 1:65,740 | 3,240 |
| Lesotho | 98% | 68 | 1:30,000 | 3,489 |
| Australia | - | 67 | 1:203,845 | 5,065 |
| Belgium | 100% | 64 | 1:179,532 | 4,666 |
| Congo | 100% | 60 | 1:83,487 | 5,632 |
| Micronesia | - | 59 | 1:1,805 | 276 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 56 | 1:915 | 95 |
| Czechia | 97% | 52 | 1:204,926 | 1,616 |
| China | - | 48 | 1:28,459,495 | 60,928 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 47 | 1:18,534 | 1,218 |
| Kuwait | - | 47 | 1:80,538 | 6,521 |
| Haiti | - | 46 | 1:233,195 | 10,010 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 41 | 1:2,424 | 514 |
| Armenia | 100% | 40 | 1:72,969 | 2,190 |
| Finland | 100% | 40 | 1:137,080 | 2,784 |
| Italy | 100% | 39 | 1:1,565,695 | 11,845 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 36 | 1:906,209 | 11,655 |
| Austria | 100% | 32 | 1:266,069 | 3,412 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 29 | 1:194,054 | 4,245 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 28 | 1:189,645 | 1,321 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 27 | 1:126,950 | 2,941 |
| Iceland | 100% | 26 | 1:14,078 | 1,129 |
| Denmark | - | 25 | 1:225,980 | 4,802 |
| Mozambique | - | 25 | 1:1,089,734 | 1,713 |
| Guam | - | 24 | 1:6,694 | 1,054 |
| Scotland | 100% | 24 | 1:222,932 | 3,804 |
| Norway | 100% | 21 | 1:244,397 | 5,727 |
| American Samoa | - | 20 | 1:2,792 | 500 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| Senegal | 83% | 18 | 1:810,075 | 8,367 |
| Hungary | 100% | 17 | 1:575,987 | 2,039 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 17 | 1:1,398,217 | 44,417 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 100% | 16 | 1:71,106 | 389 |
| Ethiopia | - | 16 | 1:6,097,508 | 12,067 |
| French Polynesia | - | 16 | 1:17,369 | 1,803 |
| Hong Kong | - | 16 | 1:484,545 | 4,322 |
| Myanmar | - | 16 | 1:3,246,767 | 1,079 |
| Romania | 100% | 16 | 1:1,253,248 | 22,200 |
| Iran | - | 15 | 1:5,233,125 | 19,849 |
| Ireland | 100% | 14 | 1:331,680 | 4,801 |
| Niger | 100% | 11 | 1:1,743,999 | 22,373 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 10 | 1:6,130 | 975 |
| Burundi | 100% | 9 | 1:1,100,729 | 1,050 |
| Morocco | - | 9 | 1:3,816,515 | 8,291 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 8 | 1:1,205,368 | 16,287 |
| Greenland | - | 7 | 1:8,053 | 908 |
| Singapore | - | 7 | 1:898,151 | 14,197 |
| Estonia | 100% | 6 | 1:219,230 | 6,245 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Cape Verde | - | 5 | 1:105,830 | 3,482 |
| Nauru | 100% | 5 | 1:2,385 | 265 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 5 | 1:9,099,982 | 12,980 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 5 | 1:21,949 | 2,239 |
| Egypt | 100% | 4 | 1:22,975,236 | 27,891 |
| Grenada | 100% | 4 | 1:27,031 | 2,323 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Wales | 100% | 4 | 1:773,577 | 8,486 |
| Albania | 100% | 3 | 1:1,015,523 | 26,928 |
| Palestine | 100% | 3 | 1:1,516,686 | 4,479 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 3 | 1:1,183,434 | 5,646 |
| South Korea | - | 3 | 1:1,848,140 | 23,578 |
| Turkey | 100% | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Bahamas | - | 2 | 1:199,685 | 2,758 |
| Belarus | 100% | 2 | 1:4,741,192 | 16,466 |
| Japan | - | 2 | 1:63,993,028 | 72,606 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Malta | - | 1 | 1:429,360 | 3,141 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Niue | - | 1 | 1:1,604 | 70 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 1 | 1:54,861 | 2,604 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
The alternate forms: Salomé (14,183), Salomè (250), Salóme (93), Salomë (2) & Salómé (1) are calculated separately.
Salome (20,419) may also be a surname.
Salome Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. a hellenized form of Hebrew shalem ‘perfect’, a favourite name in the Herod family. Salome was also the name of one of the women who ministered to Jesus who was first at the sepulchre on Easter morning. It has been used as a christian name since the 17th C.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Hebrew, ‘peaceable,’ which does not closely fit the Biblical Salome, for she asked for—and got—John the Baptist’s head on a charger: a theme on which Oscar Wilde wrote, in French, Salomé, the English ban on which was removed only in 1931. Now rare.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A female name. From Σαλωμη, a Greek name derived from Σαλωμών, i. e. Solomon.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Hebrew (feminine) - Peace.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Sa-lo'-me, peaceable, or peacemaker. The name of several Jewish women. 1. Of the daughter of Herodias and Herod Philip, who at the instigation of her mother asked the head of John the Baptist. 2. The wife of Zebedee, and mother of St. James the Greater, and St John the Evangelist She was one of those holy women that attended upon Christ See Matt xxvii. 56; xx. 20 22; Mark xv. 40.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: peaceable.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: Peaceable: perfect.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Salome Forename Popularity
Salome Demographics
Average Salome Salary in
United States
$36,139 USD
Per year
Rank:
307,921 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00136646
Rank: 3,562 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
83.02%
Sample size: 3,117 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Salome Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Salome in the Russian language | ||
| Саломе | salome | - |
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