Meaning not yet researched.
Saleh: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,832 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,832 in 2018; #2,472 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saleh in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,472 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,832.
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Saleh: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,832 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 83 (2018).
In 2025, 55 US boys were named Saleh, making it the 2,472nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 520 places from #1,952 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 81 boys named Saleh in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,832, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #2,349 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saleh in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 1,783 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 591 babies named Saleh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 706 US boys were named Saleh; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,056 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saleh ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #984 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Salah (1,185 babies since 1880) and Sally (205,876 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaleah, Saliha and Saleah 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: Zaleah (382), Saliha (301), Saleah (260), Saleha (144), Saliah (94), Saleyah (15), Saleigh (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 Saleh 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 7 | #984 | #959 |
| California | 13 | #1,420 | #1,741 |
| New York | 7 | #1,541 | #1,145 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,249 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 55 | #2,472 |
| 2024 | — | — | 81 | #1,952 |
| 2023 | — | — | 79 | #1,963 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,004 | 74 | #2,058 |
| 2021 | — | — | 61 | #2,295 |
| 2020 | — | — | 63 | #2,204 |
| 2019 | — | — | 61 | #2,286 |
| 2018 | — | — | 83 | #1,832 |
| 2017 | — | — | 74 | #1,955 |
| 2016 | — | — | 75 | #1,955 |
| 2015 | — | — | 56 | #2,349 |
| 2014 | — | — | 59 | #2,269 |
| 2013 | — | — | 54 | #2,357 |
| 2012 | — | — | 48 | #2,590 |
| 2011 | — | — | 45 | #2,695 |
| 2010 | — | — | 36 | #3,172 |
| 2009 | — | — | 38 | #3,096 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,575 |
| 2007 | — | — | 50 | #2,528 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,143 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,605 |
| 2004 | — | — | 36 | #2,871 |
| 2003 | — | — | 32 | #3,032 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,077 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,491 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,280 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,352 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,914 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,966 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,279 |
| 1995 | — | — | 26 | #2,834 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,192 |
| 1993 | — | — | 24 | #2,928 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,521 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,739 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,932 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,675 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,935 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,520 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,618 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,063 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,930 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,830 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,804 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,573 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,412 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,929 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,590 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,685 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,322 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,172 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,869 |
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).