Salim
#2,304 for boys in 2025, 60 births
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 35 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,005since 1960
Salim over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Salim has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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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 | #2,304 | 60 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,188 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,563 | 53 |
| 2021 | #2,588 | 50 |
| 2020 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #2,394 | 56 |
| 2018 | #2,417 | 54 |
| 2017 | #2,388 | 54 |
| 2016 | #2,365 | 55 |
| 2015 | #2,457 | 51 |
| 2014 | #2,661 | 45 |
| 2013 | #2,250 | 57 |
| 2012 | #2,594 | 47 |
| 2011 | #2,950 | 39 |
| 2010 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 2008 | #3,057 | 38 |
| 2007 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #3,044 | 31 |
| 2002 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #2,306 | 43 |
| 2000 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #2,347 | 38 |
| 1998 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #2,164 | 40 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #2,140 | 38 |
| 1994 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | #2,399 | 31 |
| 1992 | #2,303 | 32 |
| 1991 | #2,544 | 27 |
| 1990 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #1,796 | 31 |
| 1983 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1982 | #2,111 | 25 |
| 1981 | #2,138 | 24 |
| 1980 | #1,655 | 35 |
| 1979 | #1,867 | 29 |
| 1978 | #1,718 | 31 |
| 1977 | #1,904 | 26 |
| 1976 | #2,177 | 21 |
| 1975 | #2,361 | 18 |
| 1974 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #3,665 | 6 |
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First appearance
1960
The first year at least five boys were named Salim! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 333 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,304)
- 455 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #2,304)
- 153 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #2,304)
Rise & fade · boys
20 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1980 at #1,655 (35 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 26,317
- Highest: 1 in 26,317 boys born in 2023 were named Salim (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,468 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,655 in 1980, was only 1 in 50,970 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 25.4% of all boys named Salim (509) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 46 | #2,200 (1968) | #3,359 |
| 1970s | 178 | #1,718 (1978) | #2,596 |
| 1980s | 262 | #1,655 (1980) | #2,182 |
| 1990s | 309 | #2,140 (1995) | #2,564 |
| 2000s | 379 | #2,306 (2001) | #2,836 |
| 2010s | 509 | #2,250 (2013) | #2,491 |
| 2020s | 322 | #2,188 (2023) | #2,507 |
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.
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