Salif
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salif is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mali it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Turkish, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 88K◐
- BFBurkina Faso1 in 829
- SNSenegal1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- Sources
- 155 ●
- 1 in 88K ◐
across 10 countries
7.5K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 770 | 4.6K rec. | 1 in 88K | 770 | Salif | 155 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #763 | 600 | 626 rec. | — | 245 | Salif | 19 |
| SN Senegal | #95 | 550 | 172 rec. | — | 13 | Salif | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 417△ | 111 rec. | 1 in 120K | 417 | Salif | 20 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #57 | 417 | 438 rec. | — | — | Salif | 15 |
| ML Mali | #43 | 319 | 296 rec. | — | 5 | Salif | 23 |
| US United States | — | 184 | 444 rec. | 1 in 1.8M | 184 | Salif | 48 |
| CM Cameroon | #906 | 81 | 103 rec. | — | — | Salif | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 76 | 80 rec. | — | 8 | Salif | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | 74 | 90 rec. | — | 3 | Salif | 10 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 68 | 110 rec. | — | — | Salif | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 42 | 96 rec. | — | — | Salif | 4 |
Roughly 770 people in France bear this name (about 1 in 88K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French9.5K51%
- Turkish2.2K12%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)1.2K7%
- Spanish1.2K6%
- Bulgarian6684%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 9,540 | 51% |
| Turkish | 2,228 | 12% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,211 | 7% |
| Spanish | 1,168 | 6% |
| Bulgarian | 668 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 13 years between 2001–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Salif Keïtab. 1946MLMalian footballer (1946–2023)
- Salif Diallob. 1957BFBurkinabé politician
- Salif Traoréb. 1972MLMalian general and minister
- Salif Diaob. 1977SNSenegalese association football player
- A'salfob. 1979CInot in their usual nameIvorian singer, member of band Magic System
- Salifb. 1981FRFrench rapper
- Salif Sanéb. 1990FRSenegalese and French footballer (born 1990)
- Salif Cisséb. 1993FRactor
- Salif Cisséb. 1994DEGerman association football player
- Koné SalifCIcyclist
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 32 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 74 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Salif?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Salif (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Salif have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 770 people bear Salif in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled salif.
- How common is Salif compared with other names?
- In Mali, Salif is the 43rd most common given name of 1,827 given names recorded there.
- Is Salif a male or female name?
- Salif 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Salif” — the 43rd most common given name in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.