Salah — #3461 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Salah

The Social Security Administration has registered 954 babies named Salah between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Salah currently holds the #3461 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 49 babies received it in a single year. Salah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 173 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Salah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 313 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Salah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Salah in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Salah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 954 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.