Shalim
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shalim 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 , written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 276 ●
- 1 in 2.4K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
962K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salim in IN India, BD Bangladesh, OM Oman and 11 more and 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #375 | 1,160,723 | 687K rec. | — | 11K | Salim | 147 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 346,626 | 11K rec. | — | listed | Saleem | 127 |
| BD Bangladesh | #180 | 169,962 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Salim | 88 |
| OM Oman | #2 | 14,392 | 18K rec. | — | — | Salim | 107 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 14,074 | 11K rec. | — | 3 | Saleem | 119 |
| KE Kenya | #305 | 11,675 | 6.8K rec. | — | listed | Salim | 61 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #178 | 10,680 | 5.1K rec. | — | — | Salim | 108 |
| FR France | — | 10,580 | 0 rec. | 1 in 6.4K | 11K | — | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | #79 | 9,359 | 11K rec. | — | listed | Salim | 77 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 8,524 | 12K rec. | — | 1 | Salim | 43 |
| SY Syria | #636 | 7,765 | 14K rec. | — | — | Salim | 27 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 7,753 | 12K rec. | — | — | Salim | 50 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi12K56%
- 3.4K16%
- Bangla3K14%
- English8754%
- Spanish4252%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 12,096 | 56% |
| 3,360 | 16% | |
| Bangla | 3,021 | 14% |
| English | 875 | 4% |
| Spanish | 425 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Shalim is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Ileika Shalim Terekhov syn, serf. 1491.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 2 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 4 |
| 1939 | 4 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 9 |
| 1945 | 9 |
| 1946 | 12 |
| 1947 | 10 |
| 1948 | 9 |
| 1949 | 12 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 15 |
| 1952 | 16 |
| 1953 | 13 |
| 1954 | 30 |
| 1955 | 12 |
| 1956 | 20 |
| 1957 | 41 |
| 1958 | 25 |
| 1959 | 35 |
| 1960 | 32 |
| 1961 | 35 |
| 1962 | 60 |
| 1963 | 47 |
| 1964 | 56 |
| 1965 | 50 |
| 1966 | 51 |
| 1967 | 71 |
| 1968 | 49 |
| 1969 | 79 |
| 1970 | 89 |
| 1971 | 74 |
| 1972 | 83 |
| 1973 | 94 |
| 1974 | 68 |
| 1975 | 74 |
| 1976 | 115 |
| 1977 | 81 |
| 1978 | 95 |
| 1979 | 69 |
| 1980 | 81 |
| 1981 | 75 |
| 1982 | 129 |
| 1983 | 118 |
| 1984 | 114 |
| 1985 | 105 |
| 1986 | 96 |
| 1987 | 94 |
| 1988 | 81 |
| 1989 | 83 |
| 1990 | 82 |
| 1991 | 83 |
| 1992 | 96 |
| 1993 | 83 |
| 1994 | 56 |
| 1995 | 56 |
| 1996 | 20 |
| 1997 | 21 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 9 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 76 years between 1923–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Shalim Ortizb. 1979USPuerto Rican actor and singer
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 · 159 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shalim?
- We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Shalim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shalim have the most bearers?
- Shalim is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled salim.
- How common is Shalim compared with other names?
- In India, Shalim is the 375th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Shalim a male or female name?
- Shalim 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.
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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, “Shalim” — the 375th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.