How Many People Are Named Salim?
people named Salim are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 175,724 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,005 babies named Salim in Social Security records from 1960 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
65 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "safe", derived from Arabic سلم (salima) "to be safe".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Salim in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Salim alive today is about 22 years old, and 68% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 34 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Salim first appears in the records in 1960 and was given most often in 2023, to 65 babies. In 2025, 60 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1960 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Salim has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,690, in 1980. In 2025 it ranked #2,328.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,328 |
| Best rank | #1,690 (1980) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,494 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Salim alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Salim were born in New York than in any other state: about 258 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Salim was given 6.7 times as often in New York, 5.2 times in Minnesota and 1.8 times in California.
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