Salah

2,698 people in the United States were counted with the surname Salah in the 2020 census, making it the 11,211th most common in the country. That is about one person in 111,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,698
Rank: 11,211th
How common: 1 in 111,000
Per 100,000: 0.90

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

As an Islamic/Arabic surname, as well as a Jewish adoption of it, from صَلاة (“prayer”) or صَلاح (“righteousness”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Salah described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.3%
Black, not Hispanic 31.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.0%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Salah

Mohamed Salah (born 1992)Egyptian association football player
Ibrahim Salah (born 2001)Belgian association footballer
Ibrahim Salah (born 1987)Egyptian association football player
Arturo Salah (born 1949)Chilean association football player and manager

People named Salah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Salah

Also a first name

Salah has been given to 1,185 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 2019. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.