Saelah
#5,071 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Saelah has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #5,071 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Saelah, 2025
1 in 128,000
Saelah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Saelah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 128,000
- 26 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 61,800
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,071
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 88,382 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Saelah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saelah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saelahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Saelah was born before 2023 — so the typical Saelah is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 71.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 117
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 71.8% of all recorded uses (84).
Is Saelah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −203
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +9,731
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +13,557
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 5.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 92.9%
- Peak was 2024 (28)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.0% average annual change
Spellings of Saelah
Saelah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 90.8% against Saelah's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Saelah around the world
Where Saelah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Saelah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Saelah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Saelah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.