Saleh
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #2,451 for boys in 2025, 55 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,777since 1974
Saleh over time
Rank among boys' names. Saleh 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 | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,451 | 55 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,938 | 81 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,954 | 79 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #2,039 | 74 |
| 2021 | — | #2,277 | 61 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,190 | 63 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,265 | 61 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,823 | 83 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,935 | 74 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,936 | 75 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,328 | 56 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,256 | 59 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,336 | 54 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,551 | 48 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,663 | 45 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,128 | 36 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,045 | 38 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,542 | 49 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,504 | 50 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,083 | 35 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,567 | 43 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,843 | 36 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,993 | 32 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,022 | 30 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,410 | 25 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,219 | 26 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,851 | 28 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,903 | 26 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,202 | 22 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,762 | 26 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,109 | 22 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,865 | 24 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,467 | 29 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,683 | 25 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,779 | 15 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,615 | 24 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,860 | 19 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,440 | 13 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,824 | 16 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,709 | 17 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Saleh! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1980, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Saleh
- 513 spots since 2024 (#1,938 → #2,451)
- 261 spots since 2020 (#2,190 → #2,451)
- 123 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #2,451)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2018 at #1,823 (83 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,270 boys born in 2024 were named Saleh (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,056 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,823 in 2018, was only 1 in 21,881 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.3% of all boys named Saleh (591) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 31 | #5,227 (1974) | #5,542 |
| 1980s | 137 | #2,615 (1989) | #3,537 |
| 1990s | 241 | #2,467 (1992) | #2,990 |
| 2000s | 364 | #2,504 (2007) | #2,923 |
| 2010s | 591 | #1,823 (2018) | #2,322 |
| 2020s | 413 | #1,938 (2024) | #2,142 |
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.
Saleh in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 273,355 of them was named Saleh, which outranked 23.5% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,243Zylia7
- #12,243Zyliah7
- #12,243Zyniah7
- #13,592Saleh6
- #13,592Aadhyareddy6
- #13,592Aagna6
- #13,592Aaiza6
- #15,306Aabha5
- #15,306Aadhvi5
- #15,306Aailani5
Tied with 1,713 names at #13,592; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 23,595 of them was named Saleh, which outranked 85.8% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,022Takoda75
- #2,022Wisdom75
- #2,022Yehoshua75
- #2,039Saleh74
- #2,039Advaith74
- #2,039Bohdi74
- #2,039Chace74
- #2,060Bennet73
- #2,060Damoni73
- #2,060Dinero73
Tied with 20 names at #2,039; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.