Salman
#2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 143 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,583since 1974
Salman over time
Rank among boys' names. Salman 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 | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2024 | #2,057 | 73 |
| 2023 | #1,896 | 83 |
| 2022 | #2,022 | 75 |
| 2021 | #1,884 | 81 |
| 2020 | #1,977 | 72 |
| 2019 | #1,642 | 99 |
| 2018 | #1,408 | 124 |
| 2017 | #1,439 | 119 |
| 2016 | #1,279 | 142 |
| 2015 | #1,259 | 143 |
| 2014 | #1,492 | 108 |
| 2013 | #1,709 | 86 |
| 2012 | #1,729 | 87 |
| 2011 | #1,849 | 76 |
| 2010 | #2,057 | 66 |
| 2009 | #2,348 | 55 |
| 2008 | #2,207 | 60 |
| 2007 | #2,372 | 54 |
| 2006 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #2,528 | 44 |
| 2004 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #1,944 | 53 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #2,157 | 42 |
| 1997 | #2,164 | 40 |
| 1996 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #1,955 | 43 |
| 1994 | #1,716 | 52 |
| 1993 | #2,050 | 39 |
| 1992 | #1,731 | 49 |
| 1991 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #3,079 | 17 |
| 1987 | #2,641 | 20 |
| 1986 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
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| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Salman! It came in at #4,190, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1977, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Salman is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#212 · 1 in 873
- Colorado#623 · 1 in 3,779
- Washington#657 · 1 in 3,951
- Ohio#906 · 1 in 7,295
- Virginia#963 · 1 in 8,150
Best ever in a state: #200 in Minnesota, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #212 | 31 | 1 in 873 |
| Colorado | #623 | 7 | 1 in 3,779 |
| Washington | #657 | 9 | 1 in 3,951 |
| Ohio | #906 | 8 | 1 in 7,295 |
| Virginia | #963 | 5 | 1 in 8,150 |
| New York | #1,105 | 10 | 1 in 9,755 |
| Texas | #1,641 | 9 | 1 in 19,574 |
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See more about Salman
- 423 spots since 2024 (#2,057 → #2,480)
- 503 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #2,480)
- 1,221 spots since 2015 (#1,259 → #2,480)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2015 at #1,259 (143 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,364 boys born in 2016 were named Salman (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,259 in 2015, was only 1 in 13,404 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.7% of all boys named Salman (1,050) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 27 | #4,190 (1974) | #4,596 |
| 1980s | 181 | #2,360 (1986) | #2,780 |
| 1990s | 407 | #1,716 (1994) | #2,078 |
| 2000s | 480 | #1,944 (2000) | #2,375 |
| 2010s | 1,050 | #1,259 (2015) | #1,586 |
| 2020s | 438 | #1,884 (2021) | #2,053 |
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.
Salman in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,554 of them was named Salman, which outranked 89.9% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,433Francesco120
- #1,433Rowdy120
- #1,433Zayvion120
- #1,439Salman119
- #1,439Aryeh119
- #1,439Devansh119
- #1,439Diesel119
- #1,449Brogan118
- #1,449Dezmond118
- #1,449Dov118
Tied with 9 names at #1,439; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.