Salih
Salih reached its high-water mark in 2017 at number 3,781, and has been recorded 587 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,539th. About 580 Salihs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Salih
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 587
- Estimated living today
- 580
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 3,781st
- Rank in 2025
- 4,539th
- First recorded
- 1973
How old the living Salihs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 587 babies given the name since 1973, about 580 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Salihs
- Salih Özcan (born 1998)Turkish-German association football player
- Salih Muslim (1951–2026)Syrian Kurdish leader
- Salih Uçan (born 1994)Turkish association football player
- Salih al-Fawzan (born 1935)Saudi Salafist Islamic scholar
- Salih Mahmoud Osman (born 1957)Sudanese politician
- Al-Salih Salih (1337–1360)Mamluk sultan of Egypt 1351–1354
- Salih Hulusi Kezrak (1864–1939)Turkish statesperson and teacher
- Salih ibn Ali (711–769)Abbasid governor and general
People named Salih with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Salih is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Salih peaked:
Salih elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Salih +2 spellings | 805 | 1,020th |
| England and Wales boys | Salih | 273 | 1,506th |
| Belgium boys | Salih | 250 | 566th |
| Scotland boys | Salih | 4 | 647th |
| Poland boys | Salih | 2 birth registrations | 707th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Salih: rank by region
In 2025, Salih was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Salih | 714 | 7 |
In 2024, Salih was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Salih | 324 | 2 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Salih appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (319th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Salih by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 58 | 245th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Salih among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Salih | 32 | 95 |
| Finland girls | Salih | — | 35 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Salih against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.