Meaning not yet researched.
Salim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,690 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,690 in 1980; #2,328 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Salim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,328 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #1,690.
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Salim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,690 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 65 (2023).
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Salim, making it the 2,328th most common boys’ name of the year, up 336 places from #2,664 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 50 boys named Salim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,690, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 65, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,478 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Salim in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 2,005 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 509 babies named Salim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 541 US boys were named Salim; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Salim ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #792 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Saleem (1,945 babies since 1880), Selim (1,023 babies since 1880), Salem (11,178 babies since 1880) and Salome (5,624 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Salim 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #792 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,212 | #1,300 |
| California | 6 | #2,420 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 60 | #2,328 |
| 2024 | — | — | 50 | #2,664 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,215 |
| 2022 | — | — | 53 | #2,586 |
| 2021 | — | — | 50 | #2,615 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,800 |
| 2019 | — | — | 56 | #2,415 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,441 |
| 2017 | — | — | 54 | #2,412 |
| 2016 | — | — | 55 | #2,383 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,478 |
| 2014 | — | — | 45 | #2,701 |
| 2013 | — | — | 57 | #2,272 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,621 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,992 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,464 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,514 |
| 2008 | — | — | 38 | #3,092 |
| 2007 | — | — | 40 | #2,965 |
| 2006 | — | — | 46 | #2,615 |
| 2005 | — | — | 29 | #3,438 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,208 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,101 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,464 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,338 |
| 2000 | — | — | 29 | #3,061 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,392 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,166 |
| 1997 | — | — | 40 | #2,194 |
| 1996 | — | — | 33 | #2,426 |
| 1995 | — | — | 38 | #2,170 |
| 1994 | — | — | 32 | #2,437 |
| 1993 | — | — | 31 | #2,445 |
| 1992 | — | — | 32 | #2,350 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,594 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,042 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,601 |
| 1988 | — | — | 32 | #2,026 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #3,052 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,589 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,166 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,835 |
| 1983 | — | — | 26 | #2,069 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,157 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,192 |
| 1980 | — | — | 35 | #1,690 |
| 1979 | — | — | 29 | #1,898 |
| 1978 | — | — | 31 | #1,748 |
| 1977 | — | — | 26 | #1,939 |
| 1976 | — | — | 21 | #2,227 |
| 1975 | — | — | 18 | #2,435 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,440 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,993 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,905 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,112 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,477 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,329 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,290 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,952 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,430 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,976 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,985 |
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).