Salah
Salah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 33 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 330.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201949 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1972
- 1,127people given the name
The story in the numbers
954 boys have been named Salah in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 49 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 33%.
Salah is used for both sexes: 15% of its bearers are girls (173), most of them born around 2024.
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Salah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Salah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Yehoshuapeak 2019
- Farhanpeak 2024
- Natanpeak 2017
- Elimelechpeak 2024
- Yisroelpeak 2019
- Zacariaspeak 2010
- Nicolaipeak 2015
- Ajpeak 2012
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.