Meaning not yet researched.
Selim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,880 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,880 in 2017; #2,638 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Selim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,638 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,880.
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Selim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,880 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 78 (2017).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Selim, making it the 2,638th most common boys’ name of the year, down 378 places from #2,260 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 64 boys named Selim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,880, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #2,350 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Selim in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,023 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 504 babies named Selim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 622 US boys were named Selim; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Selim ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,726 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). Rarer spellings such as Selam, Seleem and Selihom 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: Selam (205), Seleem (53), Selihom (43), Silem (15), Selome (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 Selim 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,726 | #854 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,886 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,958 | #1,843 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 50 | #2,638 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,260 |
| 2023 | — | — | 54 | #2,504 |
| 2022 | — | — | 59 | #2,402 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,432 |
| 2020 | — | — | 50 | #2,579 |
| 2019 | — | — | 74 | #1,995 |
| 2018 | — | — | 75 | #1,974 |
| 2017 | — | — | 78 | #1,880 |
| 2016 | — | — | 62 | #2,201 |
| 2015 | — | — | 56 | #2,350 |
| 2014 | — | — | 59 | #2,270 |
| 2013 | — | — | 30 | #3,567 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,987 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,969 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,211 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #6,037 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,723 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,804 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,394 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,160 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,899 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #5,002 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,964 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,420 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,852 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #7,003 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,971 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,821 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,576 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,384 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,944 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,401 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,521 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,964 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,533 |
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).