Saléh
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saléh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic صَالِح (ṣāliḥ).
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 438(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.2K
- USUnited States1 in 101K
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 Saléh 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- #645 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 438 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named Salih, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Salah in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, DZ Algeria, Saleh in US United States, NG Nigeria, SA Saudi Arabia and Salih in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus.
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Arabic صَالِح (ṣāliḥ).
Sources 4
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saléh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #27 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | 165K | Salih | 136 |
| DZ Algeria | #17 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 532 | — | Salah | 111 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #158 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 438 | — | Saleh | 191 |
| EG Egypt | #98 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Salah | 173 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Saleh | 74 |
| MA Morocco | #47 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | — | Salah | 120 |
| US United States | — | 3,308 | 1 in 101K | 15K | Saleh | 354 |
| CY Cyprus | #22 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 512 | — | Salih | 24 |
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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saléh mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic صَالِح (ṣāliḥ). Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Saléh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 197 thousand people named Salih in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Saléh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,308 people named Saléh in 2020, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Saléh compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Saléh is the 27th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sal%C3%A9hThe 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, “Saléh” — the 27th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.