Selamat as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Selamat

What is the meaning of the name Selamat ?

The baby name Selamat is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /səˈlamat/ (suh-LAH-mat).

Selamat is Indonesian, Malay in Origin.

Selamat is a Malay–Indonesian given name and word meaning safe, secure, blessed, and by extension congratulations in greetings (e.g., Selamat pagi). It ultimately derives from Arabic salamah/salam, safety, peace, absorbed during the Islamization of Maritime Southeast Asia. As a personal name, it has been used across Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore since at least the early modern period, conveying a parental wish for protection and wellbeing. In Javanese culture it is closely linked to the communal rite selamatan/slametan, a feast-prayer seeking safety.

Common variants include Slamet (very widespread in Java and the name of a volcano), Selamet (orthographic spelling), and Salamat, a cognate found in Tagalog and other languages influenced by the same Arabic root. Related forms are Salam, Salim, and Salamah. Selamat functions as a unisex name, though it skews masculine in Indonesian usage.