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Saladin

Boys' name

Form of Salah

Saladin has been given to 174 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Saladin, 2022

1 in 677,000

Saladin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saladin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Salah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saladin means

Saladin is a form of Salah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Saladin is used in History.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsæl.ə.dɪn/ for Saladin.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Saladin → Salah. The family’s meaning is “prayer”, recorded in English with the source elements ṣalāh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Salah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 174 boys were recorded with the name Saladin between 1960 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1966; its best national rank was #2,440 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saladin?

Saladin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saladin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saladin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saladins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saladin was born before 1975 — so the typical Saladin is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
174
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Saladin 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1966 (12)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,440
1966

Spellings of Saladin

Saladin is not the most common spelling — Alain is, with 69.9% against Saladin's 3.1%.

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.

Where Saladin is used

Across 1910–2025, Saladin was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 960,846 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saladin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saladin around the world

Where Saladin 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.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    1997–2024
    #5,935
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Saladin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,440
1966
Peak year
1966
12 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
174
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saladin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Saladin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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