Salman
A Hebrew name that carries the sense of "safe". It stays rare in Poland: only about 136 men hold it, and most Poles have never met one.
Salman Pronunciation
Salman is pronounced SAHL-mahn (/ˈsalman/).
What Salman means
Where Salman comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Salman traces back through a Semitic root that also gives Hebrew its shalom, the root s-l-m, carrying the idea of being safe and whole. In its Arabic form the name settled into a single, plain sense: safe. That meaning has been read into it for centuries.
The best-known early bearer was Salman al-Farisi, a Persian who became a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and one of the most respected figures in early Islamic history. Much later the name reached a wide Western readership through Salman Rushdie, the novelist who wrote Midnight's Children. Two men, one name, very different lives.
For a Polish reader the name arrives as a guest. A boy called Salman shows up on a school register in Warsaw, and the teacher pauses over it before the roll settles. It has no Polish diminutive of its own and no name-day in the calendar. What it keeps is that first meaning, bezpieczny, safe.
How many people are named Salman
1 in 156957 men in Poland is named Salman. 136 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2838 among male names.
Salman's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Salman as a middle name
Salman is a first name for 136 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1885th, between Salam (22) and Sampath (22).
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#1883 Reiner22
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#1884 Salam22
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#1885 Salman22
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#1886 Sampath22
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#1887 Sanchez22