Selam

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Selam: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
37years from first to last
#254highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2011

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3225
2007	#5201
2011	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 21 of the 28 years from 1975 to 2002.

In 1999: #584 among girls in Norway, #3225 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1975–2011 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #566 among girls in Norway in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1975–2002
Highest recorded position: #254 among girls in Norway, in 1991 (recorded 1975–2002).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2011
Most recently recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011.
England and Wales · Girls

Selam appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1975, and has registered 175 births with the name.

Selam across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Selam's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#566 (1975)	#254 (1991)	#526 (2002)	21 of 28	175 (1975–2002)	22 (1991)
England and Wales · Girls	#3225 (1999)	#3225 (1999)	#5785 (2011)	3 of 13	10 (1999–2011)	4 (1999)

Selam by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Selam in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	16	3 of 10	5
1980sbusiest	77	8 of 10	10
1990s	72	8 of 10	9
2000s	10	2 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #254 in Norway in 1991.

Selam's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#526	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#626	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#584	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#478	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#552	6	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#652	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#469	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#336	13	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#254	22	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#536	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#342	14	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#378	12	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#358	13	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#419	10	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#460	9	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#479	8	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#606	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#542	6	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#654	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#476	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#566	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Selam is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Selam, between 1975 and 2011, in 23 of those 37 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1975–2002	21	#254 in 1991
England and Wales	1999–2011	3	#3225 in 1999

No registrar recorded it for 4 years after 2002; it appears again in 2007.

Selam was ranked #254 in Norway · Girls in 1991. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Laila#250
Martina#251
Mary#252
Ronja#253
Tora#255
Ulrikke#256
Vivian#257
Alina#258

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #254 in Norway in 1991. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Selam

Selam at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Selam across 2 official records

Selam by decade in Norway · Girls

Popularity data

Where Selam is officially recorded

Names published alongside Selam

Selam at a glance

Selam across 2 official records

Selam by decade in Norway · Girls

Names published alongside Selam