Meaning not yet researched.
Salah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,652 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,652 in 2019; #3,300 in 2025. About 62% of babies named Salah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,300 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,652.
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Salah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,652 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 49 (2019).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Salah, making it the 3,300th most common boys’ name of the year, up 209 places from #3,509 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 33 boys named Salah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,652, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 49. For comparison, it was #3,761 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Salah, making it the 5,681st most common girls’ name of the year, down 923 places from #4,758 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 29 girls named Salah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,758, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 29. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Salah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 1,185 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 340 babies named Salah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 333 US boys were named Salah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Saleh (1,783 babies since 1880), Sayla (896 babies since 1880) and Zaylah (852 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Salayah, Salaya and Saelah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Salayah (210), Salaya (174), Saelah (117), Sailah (58), Salay (5), Salai (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Salah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,681 | 36 | #3,300 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,758 | 33 | #3,509 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,922 | 39 | #3,169 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,237 | 32 | #3,600 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,216 | 26 | #4,105 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,815 | 26 | #4,007 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,571 | 49 | #2,652 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,094 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,210 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,714 | 29 | #3,758 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,761 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,206 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,136 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,114 | 27 | #3,870 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,585 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,364 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,326 | 30 | #3,622 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,922 | 26 | #4,011 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,692 | 31 | #3,494 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,732 | 34 | #3,209 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,793 | 29 | #3,437 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,905 | 26 | #3,618 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,953 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,582 | 23 | #3,760 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,952 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,524 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,267 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,374 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,221 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,531 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,321 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,801 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,651 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,810 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,412 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,731 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,992 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,499 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,927 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,839 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,387 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,647 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,376 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,518 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,108 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,804 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,927 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,684 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,744 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,881 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).