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Salik

Boys' name

Possibly the cleanser

Salik has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1994, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Salik, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Salik: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly the cleanser

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Salik means

Salik may mean “the cleanser”, associated with saliisoq.

Origin, language, and formation

Salik is used in Greenlandic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Greenlandic, Salik is pronounced /salik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 boys were recorded with the name Salik between 1973 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1994; its best national rank was #4,972 in 1973.

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 Salik?

Salik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Salik 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saliks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Salik was born before 1995 — so the typical Salik is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Salik 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (8)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,972
1973

Spellings of Salik

Salik is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 28.8% against Salik'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.

Salik around the world

Where Salik 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
    1996–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Salik 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
#4,972
1973
Peak year
1994
8 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Salik

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

SalifSalixSalarSalilSaliouSalamSalaarSalihSalaamSalesiJalikSalahSallieSalmaanMylikMilikKilikMelikSalehRalikSalimSallyKalikShalik

Sibling names for Salik

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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