Meaning not yet researched.
Saleem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,163 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,163 in 1980; #2,533 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saleem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,533 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #1,163.
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Saleem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,163 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 72 (2024).
In 2025, 53 US boys were named Saleem, making it the 2,533rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 441 places from #2,092 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 72 boys named Saleem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,163, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 72, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,851 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saleem in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 5 babies. In all, 1,945 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 471 babies named Saleem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 520 US boys were named Saleem; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saleem ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,079 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Salim (2,005 babies since 1880) and Salem (11,178 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Saleem in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,079 | #646 |
| New York | 6 | #1,719 | #1,593 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 53 | #2,533 |
| 2024 | — | — | 72 | #2,092 |
| 2023 | — | — | 48 | #2,725 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,909 |
| 2021 | — | — | 47 | #2,727 |
| 2020 | — | — | 43 | #2,832 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,518 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,257 |
| 2017 | — | — | 56 | #2,337 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,827 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,851 |
| 2014 | — | — | 57 | #2,314 |
| 2013 | — | — | 37 | #3,047 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,159 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,893 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,721 |
| 2009 | — | — | 47 | #2,650 |
| 2008 | — | — | 36 | #3,209 |
| 2007 | — | — | 41 | #2,911 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #3,018 |
| 2005 | — | — | 37 | #2,889 |
| 2004 | — | — | 45 | #2,478 |
| 2003 | — | — | 29 | #3,258 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,329 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,376 |
| 2000 | — | — | 29 | #3,060 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,547 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,440 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,809 |
| 1996 | — | — | 32 | #2,474 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,748 |
| 1994 | — | — | 34 | #2,334 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,763 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,453 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #3,091 |
| 1990 | — | — | 27 | #2,542 |
| 1989 | — | — | 23 | #2,768 |
| 1988 | — | — | 32 | #2,025 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,626 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,052 |
| 1985 | — | — | 23 | #2,346 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,514 |
| 1983 | — | — | 35 | #1,682 |
| 1982 | — | — | 28 | #1,984 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,721 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,163 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,459 |
| 1978 | — | — | 44 | #1,408 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,603 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,489 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,698 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,120 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,418 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,116 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,314 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,873 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,444 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,510 |
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).