Salah

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Salah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness, peace, concord, treaty, rectitude.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria1 in 98◐
  • BHBahrain1 in 154
  • TRTürkiye1 in 258

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈13K ●

across 6 countries

#990 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
328 ●

2.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.8K ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

SalihLatin · Turkish●1.9M records
สาและThai · Thai●63K records
СалихCyrillic · Russian●24K records
ᲡალეჰGeorgian · Georgian●90 records
সালেহBengali · Bangla●66 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Saleh in US United States, BD Bangladesh, ID Indonesia and 11 more, Salih in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, BG Bulgaria and 2 more, Салих in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and สาและ in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness, peace, concord, treaty, rectitude

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Salah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#262,077,1711.9M rec.—165KSalih103
DZ Algeria#9247,75819K rec.——Salah100
TH Thailand—103,09550K rec.—#173,686สาและ95
BD Bangladesh#74580,7932.8K rec.—listedSaleh78
EG Egypt#9675,28671K rec.—listedSalah155
SY Syria#5173,726112K rec.——Salih49
ID Indonesia—37,1614.5K rec.—listedSaleh162
RU Russia#79834,95121K rec.—#293Салих110
MY Malaysia—28,65913K rec.——Saleh50
MA Morocco#3727,64427K rec.——Salah111
NG Nigeria—26,93134K rec.—listedSaleh64
PK Pakistan#37923,815876 rec.—listedSaleh54

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English253K44%
  • Arabic140K24%
  • French67K12%
  • Spanish17K3%
  • Turkish9.9K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English252,99544%
Arabic140,00324%
French67,12712%
Spanish16,9093%
Turkish9,8952%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Salah is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name28K records spelled Salah101 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sàlàh, Sâlâh, Ṣalāḥ, Sãlãh, Šâlâh

  • a separate given name9.1K records spelled Salah12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, India, Pakistan

    Also written Ṣalāḥ, Salāḥ, Šalāh, Salaḥ, Ṣalaḥ

  • Danish given name2.8K records spelled Salah17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Sălah, Sàlàh, Sálah, Ṣalāḥ, Salåh

  • Polish given name1.1K records spelled Salah5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Sálàh, Śąĺāh, Sálãh, Śáļãh

  • Pashto given name802 records spelled Salah2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria

    Also written Şalah

  • Amharic given name768 records spelled Salah7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Morocco, Türkiye

    Also written ሳላህ, Sala, ሳላ, Şala, Šala

  • Bulgarian given name547 records spelled Salah28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, Iraq, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Салах, Šalah, Šâlâh, Sälàh, Sàlàh

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Salah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • ‘Goodness’, ‘righteousness’. Salah-ud-Din (Saladdin) means ‘righteousness of religion’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Arabic, He is wise

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • In Swedish, Salah är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’rättfärdighet’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, good; righteous

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020301920194019601980200027 · 1957

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Salah in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1920–2015
Yearrecords
19201
19271
19291
19331
19352
19372
19385
19396
19401
19416
19423
19433
19445
19454
19466
194715
19483
19493
19506
19518
195213
19535
19548
195510
195610
195727
195817
195910
19608
19615
196224
196316
196415
196526
196620
196716
196816
196919
197026
197124
197221
197321
197425
197524
197621
197715
197823
197917
198012
198120
198217
198320
198416
198515
198613
198712
198816
198913
199011
199114
199219
199312
199416
19956
19963
19972
19982
19991
200811
20102
20112
20131
20145
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 74 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Salah ad-Din al-Bitar, b. 1912Salah Zulfikar, b. 1926Essam Sirius, b. 1926Saleh Qojil, b. 1931Syed Kamall, b. 1967Salah Hissou, b. 1972Salah Mejri, b. 1986Salah Abdeslam, b. 1989Mohamed Salah, b. 1992Salah Zakaria, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 82 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Salah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20244.2K#1,004
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3K#1,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.9K#5,569
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,211
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.7K#629
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.3K#970
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,195
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19601.5K#10
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#21,349
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020885—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—711#6,002
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—711#5,996

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 537 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Salah?
We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Salah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Salah have the most bearers?
Salah is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled salih.
How common is Salah compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Salah is the 26th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Salah a male or female name?
Salah is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Salah mean?
Recorded meaning: piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness, peace, concord, treaty, rectitude
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Salah” — the 26th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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