Salim
About 2,005 American babies have been named Salim since 1960, most of them around 2023. In 2025 it ranked 2,304th. About 1,900 Salims are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Salim
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,005
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 2,188th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,304th
- First recorded
- 1960
How old the living Salims are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,005 babies given the name since 1960, about 1,900 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 910 of them are children and 5 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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.
Notable Salims
- Salim Ali (1896–1987)Indian ornithologist
- Salim al-Huss (1929–2024)Lebanese statesman
- Salim Idris (born 1957)Syrian military officer
- Salim Ahmed Salim (born 1942)Tanzanian politician and diplomat
- Salim Barakat (born 1951)Syrian-Swedish writer
- Salim Khan (born 1935)Indian actor and screenwriter
- Salim I of Kuwait (1864–1921)Monarch of Kuwait
- Salim Kechiouche (born 1979)French actor
People named Salim with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Salim is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Salim is most concentrated in New York (5.5×), Minnesota (4.8×), California (2.4×), Pennsylvania (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Salim peaked:
Salim elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Salim +1 spelling | 10,815 | 248th |
| Belgium boys | Salim | 885 | 276th |
| Italy boys | Salim | 571 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Salim | 438 | 1,189th |
| Switzerland boys | Salim | 98 | 764th |
| Poland boys | Salim | 7 birth registrations | 595th |
| Ireland boys | Salim | 3 | 506th |
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.
Salim: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Salim | 53 | 0.004% | 749th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Salim | 44 | 0.010% | 426th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Salim | 1 | 0.002% | 184th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Salim: rank by region
In 2025, Salim was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Salim | 409 | 14 |
| Wallonia | Salim | 356 | 7 |
| Brussels | Salim | 130 | 9 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Salim appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (130th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (177th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Salim by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 17 | 368th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Salim 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 | Salim | 54 | 124 |
| Finland girls | Salim | — | 22 |
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.
Where Salim lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,861 men called Salim were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Salim | 42 | 0.960 | 177 |
| Ceuta | Salim | 39 | 0.925 | 183 |
| AlmerÃa | Salim | 80 | 0.203 | 445 |
| Teruel | Salim | 13 | 0.187 | 441 |
| Tarragona | Salim | 79 | 0.180 | 496 |
| Girona | Salim | 72 | 0.173 | 517 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Salim against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.