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Saliha

#7,436 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Salih

Saliha has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #7,436 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Saliha, 2025

1 in 221,000

Saliha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saliha: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Salih

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saliha means

Saliha is a feminine form of Salih.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Saliha is a feminine form of Salih. Salih has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Salih.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 301 girls were recorded with the name Saliha between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2014; its best national rank was #6,658 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,889 in 2020 to #7,436 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,677 in 2015 to #7,436 in 2025.

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.

How common is Saliha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,436
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saliha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saliha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salihas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saliha was born before 2014 — so the typical Saliha is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
301
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Saliha 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
+3,515
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+453
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,241
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.9%
Peak was 2014 (19)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,658
2014

Spellings of Saliha

Saliha is not the most common spelling — Alisha is, with 11.3% against Saliha's 0.06%.

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 Saliha is used

Across 1910–2025, Saliha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,026,066 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Saliha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saliha around the world

Where Saliha 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
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • France
    1951–2025
    #1,769
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saliha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,436
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 453
Best rank ever
#6,658
2014
Peak year
2014
19 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
301
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Saliha

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

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Sibling names for Saliha

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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