How Many People Are Named Saleh?
people named Saleh are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 195,082 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,783 babies named Saleh in Social Security records from 1974 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
83 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant transcription of SALIH.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Saleh (99.7%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Saleh alive today is about 16 years old, and 83% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Saleh first appears in the records in 1974 and was given most often in 2018, to 83 babies. In 2025, 55 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1974 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Saleh has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,831, in 2018. In 2025 it ranked #2,472.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,472 |
| Best rank | #1,831 (2018) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,252 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Saleh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Saleh were born in New York than in any other state: about 261 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Saleh was given 6.5 times as often in Michigan, 6.3 times in New York and 2.6 times in Illinois.
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