Salah

Where Salah comes from

As an Islamic/Arabic surname, as well as a Jewish adoption of it, from صَلاة (ṣalāh, “prayer”) or صَلاح (ṣalāḥ, “righteousness”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Salah
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #4,441 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2019
    Peak, #2,626
    49 babies named Salah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.