# Salah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/salah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “prayer”, “righteousness” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,185 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 990 / 195 (16% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 394, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

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

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | 13,905 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,793 |
| 2006 | 6 | 16,732 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13,692 |
| 2008 | 5 | 19,922 |
| 2009 | 10 | 11,326 |
| 2012 | 10 | 11,114 |
| 2016 | 10 | 10,714 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,571 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,815 |
| 2021 | 25 | 5,216 |
| 2022 | 16 | 7,237 |
| 2023 | 21 | 5,922 |
| 2024 | 29 | 4,758 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,681 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 3,585 |
| 2012 | 27 | 3,870 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,136 |
| 2014 | 35 | 3,206 |
| 2015 | 29 | 3,761 |
| 2016 | 29 | 3,758 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4,210 |
| 2018 | 38 | 3,094 |
| 2019 | 49 | 2,652 |
| 2020 | 26 | 4,007 |
| 2021 | 26 | 4,105 |
| 2022 | 32 | 3,600 |
| 2023 | 39 | 3,169 |
| 2024 | 33 | 3,509 |
| 2025 | 36 | 3,300 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 14 | 1,620 |
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1,903 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 30 | 958 |
| 2019 | 30 | 952 |
| 2020 | 29 | 962 |
| 2021 | 25 | 1,117 |
| 2022 | 23 | 1,179 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,272 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,538 |

## People named Salah

- Mohamed Salah, Egyptian association football player (born 1992)
- Salah Assad, Algerian footballer
- Salah Zulfikar, Egyptian actor and producer (1926–1993)
- Salah Abu Seif, Egyptian film director (1915–1996)
- Salah Abdel Sabour, Egyptian poet
- Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (1930–1986)
- Salah Bakour, Algerian footballer
- Salah Mohamed Samadi, Algerian footballer
- Salah Bouchekriou, Algerian handball player
- Salah Eddine Mraouni, cyclist
- Syed Kamall, British politician (born 1967)
- Saleh Qojil, Algerian politician (born 1931)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.