Salome
From Hebrew, carrying the sense of *shalom*: peace. Most Poles have never met one, but the name is quietly gaining ground, with more girls given it last year than in years past.
Salome Pronunciation
Salome is pronounced sah-LO-me (/saˈlɔmɛ/).
What Salome means
Where Salome comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Salome comes from Hebrew, from the root shalom, which means peace. In Polish that sense is pokój. The name traveled through the Greek New Testament, where a woman called Salome appears among those who came to the tomb, and it reached Poland in a fuller shape: Salomea.
Blessed Salomea of Poland gives the name a firm anchor. She was a thirteenth-century princess, the daughter of Leszek the White, and after a royal marriage she became a Poor Clare. Rome beatified her in 1672. Because of her, Salomea settled into Polish registers as a name with local history rather than a borrowed one.
Short. The two forms sit side by side. Salome keeps its biblical, cross-border shape, while Salomea reads as thoroughly Polish, the version a teacher might read out from a class register. Under both spellings the meaning holds steady: peace, pokój.
How many people are named Salome
1 in 78550 women in Poland is named Salome. 287 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1793 among female names.
Salome's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1347 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Salome is most popular
Salome is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%
Salome as a middle name
Salome is a first name for 287 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1501st, between Rana (23) and Stasia (23).
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#1499 Phoebe23
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#1500 Rana23
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#1501 Salome23
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#1502 Stasia23
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#1503 Stéphanie23