Selamawit
Selamawit is a name with a single cultural origin: Amharic.
- Amharic
Meaning & Origin of Selamawit
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Selamawit is a name with a single cultural origin: Amharic.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Amharic
The Story of Selamawit
The earliest SSA record of Selamawit as a baby girl name dates back to 1990, when 7 babies received it. 1990 was its biggest year on record, with 7 newborns named Selamawit — #10,193 in the national rankings. About 77% of every Selamawit on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Selamawit last appeared in the published SSA data in 2007, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 22 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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About the name Selamawit
Selamawit is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1990 and has accumulated 22 births in the dataset. Selamawit's peak popularity came in 1990 when it ranked #10,193. Use the chart and map above to compare Selamawit's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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