Meaning and history
From an Aramaic name related to the Hebrew word שָׁלוֹם (shalom), meaning “peace,” Salome was the name of Herodias’ daughter according to the historian Josephus, and the name has traditionally been identified with the daughter of Herodias who danced for Herod and received John the Baptist’s head, though the New Testament does not name her. As a Christian given name, it has been used occasionally since the Protestant Reformation, influenced by another New Testament Salome, one of the women who witnessed the crucifixion and later found Jesus’ tomb empty. The name is also used in Georgia because of Salome of Ujarma, a 4th-century saint in the Georgian Church.
20062006: 82 births, rank #2,308
2007: 84 births, rank #2,293
2008: 81 births, rank #2,380
2009: 76 births, rank #2,485
2010: 83 births, rank #2,296
20112011: 74 births, rank #2,454
2012: 77 births, rank #2,401
2013: 83 births, rank #2,236
2014: 103 births, rank #1,940
2015: 125 births, rank #1,695
20162016: 120 births, rank #1,735
2017: 129 births, rank #1,665
2018: 140 births, rank #1,548
2019: 125 births, rank #1,679
2020: 155 births, rank #1,412
20212021: 148 births, rank #1,450
2022: 195 births, rank #1,232
2023: 222 births, rank #1,107
2024: 275 births, rank #951
20252025: 239 births, rank #1,040
Salome moved from #766 to #951 for girls between 1908 and 2024. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 275.