Salim — #2639 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Salim

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,945 babies named Salim between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Salim currently holds the #2639 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Salim performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 509 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Salim shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 266 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Salim in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Salim 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 1,945 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.