Šaleem
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Šaleem is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Oman it is the 2nd most common given name. Šaleem is also written সেলিম in Bengali, სალიმ in Georgian and சலம in Tamil.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 3.3K
- OMOman≈1 in 150as Salim
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šaleem itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440,000 named Salim, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šaleem in other scripts: Bengali, Georgian, Tamil and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Salim in IN India, OM Oman, KE Kenya and 4 more and Saleem in PK Pakistan, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šaleem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #448 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 11K | Salim | 172 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | listed | Saleem | 147 |
| BD Bangladesh | #63 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Salim | 91 |
| DZ Algeria | #29 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 524 | listed | Salim | 89 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Salim | 45 |
| TZ Tanzania | #282 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Salim | 70 |
| KE Kenya | #300 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Salim | 65 |
| OM Oman | #2 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 148 | — | Salim | 112 |
| US United States | — | 5,605as Salem | 1 in 59K | 8.8K | Saleem | 324 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Šaleem a male or female name?
- Šaleem is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Šaleem?
- Mondonomo estimates about 436 thousand people named Salim in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, Bangladesh, Algeria and Türkiye; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Šaleem?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,605 people named Salem in 2020, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Šaleem compared with other names?
- In India, Šaleem is the 448th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1aleemThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šaleem” — ranked 922nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.