Salim
Salim was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,328 among boys’ names; 2,005 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Salim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Salim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Salim?
#2,328 among boys’ names, 2025
Salim rose from #2,477 in 2015 to #2,328 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 26.6 to 35.1 per million.
65 babies in 2023, the peak
Salim peaked in 2023, when 65 boys were given it, #2,214 among boys’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,328 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,664 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,214 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,585 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,614 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,799 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,414 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 54 | #2,440 | 29.7 |
| 2017 | 54 | #2,411 | 29.2 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,383 | 29.0 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,477 | 26.6 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,699 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,271 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,620 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,991 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,463 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,513 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,090 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,963 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,614 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 29 | #3,434 | 14.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,204 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,097 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,460 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,334 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,055 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,389 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,162 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,191 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,421 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,165 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,432 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,439 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,345 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,588 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,036 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,595 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,021 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,048 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,586 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,165 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,834 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,068 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,156 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,191 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 35 | #1,690 | 19.6 |
| 1979 | 29 | #1,898 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,748 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 26 | #1,939 | 15.8 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,226 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,434 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,438 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,991 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,903 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,110 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,475 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,328 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,289 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,951 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,429 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,975 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,984 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Salim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Salim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Salim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Salim, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,005 Americans ever recorded as Salim. The median Salim alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 4,220 people named Salim (74 women and girls, 4,146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,649 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 222 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 419 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 601 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 689 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Salim born?
The states with the most babies named Salim are California, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,420 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #792 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,212 | 0.4× |
Where Salim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Salim is most over-represented in New York: since 1960 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Salim with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,020 babies since 1880, Salim is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 113 babies (53%), again the most given.
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 Salim
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 Salim and names like it
- Compare Salim and SaleemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSalim peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Salim since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Salim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Salim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.