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
Showing
- 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
boys
Rank among boys' names. Saleh 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 | 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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First appearance
1974
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.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 513 spots since 2024 (#1,938 → #2,451)
- 261 spots since 2020 (#2,190 → #2,451)
- 123 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #2,451)
Rise & fade · boys
44 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2018 at #1,823 (83 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
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 21,270
- 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
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 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.
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