Saleh

Where Saleh comes from

From Iranian Persian صالح (sâleh) or directly from Arabic صَالِح (ṣāliḥ, literally “pious”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Saleh
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #5,227 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2018
    Peak, #1,823
    83 babies named Saleh — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Salih.
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.