Salim

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Salim is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Oman it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Turkish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Swahili: 'peace'; also Muslim: 'healthy, safe, complete'.

rarermore common
  • OMOman1 in 73◐
  • PKPakistan1 in 145
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 861

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

≈21K ●

across 8 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
276 ●

962K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.4K ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

SalimLatin · Hindi●684K records
সেলিমBengali · Bangla●1.2K records
ᲡალიმGeorgian · Georgian●75 records
살림Hangul · Korean●0 records
சலமTamil · Tamil●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Saleem in PK Pakistan, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 9 more.

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●

Swahili: 'peace'; also Muslim: 'healthy, safe, complete'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Salim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#3751,160,723687K rec.—11KSalim147
PK Pakistan—346,62611K rec.—listedSaleem127
BD Bangladesh#180169,96212K rec.—listedSalim88
OM Oman#214,39218K rec.——Salim107
GB United Kingdom—14,07411K rec.—3Saleem119
KE Kenya#30511,6756.8K rec.—listedSalim61
SA Saudi Arabia#17810,6805.1K rec.——Salim108
FR France—10,5800 rec.1 in 6.4K11K—4
DZ Algeria#799,35911K rec.—listedSalim77
IQ Iraq—8,52412K rec.—1Salim43
SY Syria#6367,76514K rec.——Salim27
TR Türkiye—7,75312K rec.——Salim50

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

Languages●

  • Hindi684K33%
  • Turkish375K18%
  • 221K11%
  • English162K8%
  • Bangla123K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi684,27233%
Turkish375,29218%
221,17111%
English162,0928%
Bangla122,8236%

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◐

Salim is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name404K records spelled Salim61 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

    Languages: Turkish, Russian, Uzbek

    Also written Салим, Салім, Салем, Şalim, Saleem

  • a separate given name304K records spelled Salim11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Iraq, Ethiopia

    Also written Salīm, Sālim, Sālīm, Sâlim, Ṣalim

  • Indonesian given name187K records spelled Salim15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Salim', 'Salim, ٍِSalim, Šalím, Sãlim

  • French given name181K records spelled Salim14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Sālim, Sàlim, Salím, Sălįm, Sãlįm

  • Danish given name6.8K records spelled Salim16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Tanzania, Norway, India

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Sälįm, Śàľìm, Sãlïm, Sàlïm, Sälïm

68 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●

Salim 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.

  • In Turkish, safe, sound

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Turkish, 1. Sağ, salim, sağlıklı. 2. Eksiksiz, kusursuz. 3. Korkusuz, emin.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Swedish, Salim är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’välmående, frisk’. Se även → Selim. En känd namnbärare är den syrisk-kurdiske författaren Salim Barakat (f. 1951).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, safe, secure, perfect, complete

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, safe, sound, perfect, complete

    as a nameA Dictionary of 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●

02K4K6K8K1900192019401960198020006K · 1982

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Salim in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18999
19021
19071
19122
19132
19143
19153
19163
19178
191811
191910
192021
192110
192221
192322
192420
192517
192615
192718
192819
192939
193033
193144
1932100
193349
193489
193587
193690
1937160
1938131
1939167
1940174
1941189
1942293
1943261
1944379
1945328
1946375
1947592
1948507
1949577
1950641
1951794
1952998
1953815
19541,389
19551,181
19561,577
19571,820
19581,860
19592,755
19602,185
19612,439
19623,477
19632,880
19643,831
19653,220
19663,826
19674,149
19683,813
19694,296
19704,274
19714,202
19724,953
19734,549
19744,388
19754,464
19765,392
19774,380
19784,400
19794,209
19804,551
19814,657
19826,037
19835,821
19845,834
19855,172
19864,737
19874,827
19884,731
19894,622
19904,338
19914,742
19924,429
19934,732
19943,647
19953,227
19961,443
19971,371
1998862
199939
20012
20071
2008155
20093
201063
201198
201260
201381
2014407
2015244
20162
20173

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 103 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Salim I of Kuwait, b. 1864Salim Ali, b. 1896Salim al-Huss, b. 1929Salim Khan, b. 1935Salim Ahmed Salim, b. 1942Salem bin Laden, b. 1946Salim Daw, b. 1950Salim Kechiouche, b. 1979Salim Arrache, b. 1982Salim Aliyow Ibrow, b. 2000

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 112 sources across 63 countries.

Official registers attesting Salim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202411K#265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.1K#4,434
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.9K#8,209
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—3.6K#1,990
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.4K#12,986
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,989
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.9K#1,828
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.8K#1,102
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.5K#950
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.2K#8,048
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1K#8,092

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 · 852 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Salim?
We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Salim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Salim have the most bearers?
Salim is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled salim.
How common is Salim compared with other names?
In India, Salim is the 375th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Salim a male or female name?
Salim 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 Salim mean?
Recorded meaning: Swahili: 'peace'; also Muslim: 'healthy, safe, complete'
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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, “Salim” — the 375th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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