Saleemah
Saleemah was last recorded in 2007, when 8 babies were given it; 169 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saleemah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saleemah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,687, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1978, the peak
Saleemah peaked in 1978, when 22 girls were given it, #3,478 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #13,687 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,729 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,788 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,901 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,860 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,398 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,140 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,124 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,259 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,358 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 7 | #8,919 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,875 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,137 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,703 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,864 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,068 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,478 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,143 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,504 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saleemah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saleemah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saleemah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saleemah, and how old are they?
An estimated 164 Americans named Saleemah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 28 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 256 people named Saleemah (256 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 711 babies since 1880, Saleemah is the third most given (24% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Saleemah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Saleemah and names like it
- Compare Saleemah and SalimahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sSaleemah peaked in 1978.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saleemah since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Saleemah.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Saleemah alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.