Saleem

4,529 people in the United States were counted with the surname Saleem in the 2020 census, making it the 7,116th most common in the country. That is about one person in 66,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,529
Rank: 7,116th
How common: 1 in 66,000
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 62.8%
Black, not Hispanic 16.4%
White, not Hispanic 14.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Saleem

Huner Saleem (born 1964)Iraqi film director of Kurdish origin
Durefishan Saleem (born 1996)Pakistani actress and model

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

Surnames like Saleem

Also a first name

Saleem has been given to 1,945 American babies as a first name since 1960, peaking in 2024. 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.