Salia
Salia was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,743 among girls’ names; 173 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Salia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Salia?
#11,743 among girls’ names, 2025
Salia rose from #14,237 in 2015 to #11,743 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
11 babies in 2010, the peak
Salia peaked in 2010, when 11 girls were given it, #10,335 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,743 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,334 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,956 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,953 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,246 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,689 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,237 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,773 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,807 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,052 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,047 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,335 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,890 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,583 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,468 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,481 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,627 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,699 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,158 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,579 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,958 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,395 | 3.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,025 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,349 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Salia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Salia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Salia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Salia, and how old are they?
An estimated 171 Americans named Salia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 330 people named Salia (284 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 258,857 babies since 1880, Salia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 373 babies (2.1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Salia
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 Salia and names like it
- Compare Salia and SallyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSalia peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Salia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Salia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.