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Salman

#2,511 in 2025Boys' name

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Salman has been given to 2,583 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,511 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 143 recorded.

Babies named Salman, 2025

1 in 61,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Salman: meaning, origin, and history

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Arabic

What Salman means

Salman means “safe”.

Origin, language, and formation

Salman is used in English, Maranao and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tausug, Salman is pronounced /salman/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,583 boys were recorded with the name Salman between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 143 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,264 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,993 in 2020 to #2,511 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,264 in 2015 to #2,511 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Salman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,511
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Salman 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 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salmans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Salman was born before 2012 — so the typical Salman is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,583
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (1,050).

Is Salman 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
−436
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−518
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,247
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.8%
Peak was 2015 (143)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,264
2015

Spellings of Salman

Salman is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 67.9% against Salman's 0.48%.

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 Salman is used

Across 2016–2025, Salman was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,176 boys, against 1 in 14,836 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

285 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,176
  2. 2Maine1 in 8,333
  3. 3Ohio1 in 8,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 11,111
  5. 5New York1 in 11,111
  6. 6Washington1 in 16,667
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Salman around the world

Where Salman 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
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2004–2024
    #582
    in 2024
  • France
    1977–2025
    #656
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #373
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Salman

People whose public names include Salman, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Salman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,511
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 518
Best rank ever
#1,264
2015
Peak year
2015
143 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,583
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Salman

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

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Names with a curve like Salman

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Salman, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AbdulrahmanKlaytonAamirKhaledAmmarJahlilNikolaCalderYehoshuaYoussefHussainMuhammed

Sibling names for Salman

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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