Salah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness, peace, concord, treaty, rectitude
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsæɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 532(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 552
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.4K
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 Salah 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 532 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named Salih, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Salih in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus and Saleh in NG Nigeria, SA Saudi Arabia.
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)
piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness, peace, concord, treaty, rectitude
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salah 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 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,995 | 1 in 17K | 3K | Salah | 84 |
| 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Salah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Goodness’, ‘righteousness’. Salah-ud-Din (Saladdin) means ‘righteousness of religion’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Arabic, He is wise
as a nameThe book of African names
In Swedish, Salah är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’rättfärdighet’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, good; righteous
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Salah ad-Din al-Bitarb. 1912SYSyrian politician (1912-1980)
- Salah Zulfikarb. 1926EGEgyptian actor and producer (1926–1993)
- Essam Siriusb. 1926SYnot in their usual nameSyrian major general
- Saleh Qojilb. 1931DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian politician (born 1931)
- Syed Kamallb. 1967GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1967)
- Salah Hissoub. 1972MAMoroccan long-distance runner
- Salah Mejrib. 1986TNTunisian basketball player (born 1986)
- Salah Abdeslamb. 1989FRterrorist
- Mohamed Salahb. 1992EGEgyptian association football player (born 1992)
- Salah Zakariab. 1999QAQatari footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,314 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.7K | #629 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Salah mean, and where does it come from?
- piety, righteousness, honesty, goodness, peace, concord, treaty, rectitude Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Salah a male or female name?
- Salah 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.
- How do you pronounce Salah?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsæɫə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What are other forms of the name Salah?
- In the etymology graph, Shelah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Salah 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 Salah?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,995 people named Salah, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Salah compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Salah is the 27th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Salah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salahThe 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, “Salah” — the 27th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.