Salman
Salman was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,511 among boys’ names; 2,583 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,540 Americans named Salman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Salman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Salman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Salman is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic سَلْمَان (salmān).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Salman?
#2,511 among boys’ names, 2025
Salman fell from #1,264 in 2015 to #2,511 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 74.6 to 31.6 per million.
143 babies in 2015, the peak
Salman peaked in 2015, when 143 boys were given it, #1,264 among boys’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,511 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,075 | 42.4 |
| 2023 | 83 | #1,905 | 48.5 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,033 | 43.0 |
| 2021 | 81 | #1,899 | 46.3 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,993 | 41.7 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,650 | 55.2 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,414 | 68.3 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,448 | 64.3 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,286 | 74.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 143 | #1,264 | 74.6 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,504 | 56.2 |
| 2013 | 86 | #1,721 | 45.5 |
| 2012 | 87 | #1,738 | 45.9 |
| 2011 | 76 | #1,856 | 40.0 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,064 | 34.4 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,376 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,230 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,410 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,729 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,554 | 22.0 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,627 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,223 | 24.8 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,541 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,373 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 53 | #1,957 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,447 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,187 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,192 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,101 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,979 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 52 | #1,725 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,077 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 49 | #1,741 | 24.5 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,003 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,607 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,596 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,183 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,702 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,416 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,355 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,687 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,201 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,080 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,657 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,811 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,263 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,956 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,339 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,554 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Salman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Salman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Salman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Salman, and how old are they?
2,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,583 Americans ever recorded as Salman. The median Salman alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,904 people named Salman (21 women and girls, 3,883 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,131 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 432 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 815 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,250 |
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 Salman born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 12 | #473 | 8.1× |
| California | 6 | #2,421 | 0.6× |
Where Salman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Salman is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1974 it was given 8.1 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 Salman 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 6,709 babies since 1880, Salman is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 151 babies (36%), again the second 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 Salman
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 Salman and names like it
- Compare Salman and SalomonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSalman peaked in 2015.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Salman since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Salman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Salman.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Salman alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.