Saleem
#2,516 for boys in 2025, 53 births
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,945since 1960
Saleem over time
Rank among boys' names. Saleem has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,516 | 53 |
| 2024 | #2,078 | 72 |
| 2023 | #2,693 | 48 |
| 2022 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #2,695 | 47 |
| 2020 | #2,806 | 43 |
| 2019 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | #2,230 | 61 |
| 2017 | #2,319 | 56 |
| 2016 | #2,783 | 43 |
| 2015 | #2,809 | 42 |
| 2014 | #2,299 | 57 |
| 2013 | #2,998 | 37 |
| 2012 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #2,623 | 47 |
| 2008 | #3,165 | 36 |
| 2007 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #2,979 | 37 |
| 2005 | #2,846 | 37 |
| 2004 | #2,452 | 45 |
| 2003 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #2,510 | 35 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #2,750 | 28 |
| 1996 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #2,307 | 34 |
| 1993 | #2,697 | 26 |
| 1992 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #2,007 | 29 |
| 1985 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #1,651 | 35 |
| 1982 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1980 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1979 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #1,393 | 44 |
| 1977 | #1,571 | 35 |
| 1976 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
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| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
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| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Saleem! It came in at #4,038, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Saleem
- 438 spots since 2024 (#2,078 → #2,516)
- 290 spots since 2020 (#2,806 → #2,516)
- 293 spots since 2015 (#2,809 → #2,516)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1980 at #1,154 (62 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,929 boys born in 2024 were named Saleem (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,228 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,154 in 1980, was only 1 in 28,773 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.2% of all boys named Saleem (471) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,866 |
| 1970s | 177 | #1,393 (1978) | #2,970 |
| 1980s | 307 | #1,154 (1980) | #2,040 |
| 1990s | 296 | #2,307 (1994) | #2,567 |
| 2000s | 370 | #2,346 (2001) | #2,872 |
| 2010s | 471 | #2,230 (2018) | #2,658 |
| 2020s | 307 | #2,078 (2024) | #2,610 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Saleem in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 37,314 of them was named Saleem, which outranked 79.4% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,371Tavon45
- #1,371Valentino45
- #1,371Vinson45
- #1,393Saleem44
- #1,393Abelardo44
- #1,393Adolph44
- #1,393Bilal44
- #1,410Alain43
- #1,410Anders43
- #1,410Benton43
Tied with 16 names at #1,393; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.