Selma
Female#844 most common in Croatia362 people in Croatia
- Meaning:
- Peace, safe
- Origin:
- Arabic
About the name Selma
Arabic feminine name from 'salima' (to be safe, at peace); used among Bosniak communities.
Popularity with newborns
Selma has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.
People with this name in Croatia
362 people in Croatia are called Selma, according to the 2021 census. That is #844 among all the names in Imenko.
Where the name is found
Selma is recorded in 11 of Croatia's 21 counties.
Dubrovačko-neretvanskaGrad ZagrebIstarskaMeđimurskaOsječko-baranjskaPrimorsko-goranskaSisačko-moslavačkaSplitsko-dalmatinskaVukovarsko-srijemskaZadarskaZagrebačka
Sources
Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.