Salif
#11,751 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Salif has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #11,751 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Salif, 2025
1 in 553,000
Salif 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Salif?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,751
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Salif 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Salifs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Salif was born before 2011 — so the typical Salif is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 87
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (45).
Is Salif 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
- 54.5%
- Peak was 2010 (11)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.5% average annual change
Spellings of Salif
Salif is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 31.1% against Salif's 0.05%.
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 Salif is used
Across 1910–2025, Salif was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Salif has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Salif around the world
Where Salif 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.
- France1970–2025#718in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Salif by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Salif
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Salif
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.