Saleha
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Saleha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.2K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saleha 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 | — | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 34 | Saleha | 71 |
| BD Bangladesh | #290 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Saleha | 45 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Saleha | 48 |
| AF Afghanistan | #439 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Saleha | 6 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Saleha | 52 |
| US United States | — | 950 | 1 in 350K | 946 | Saleha | 150 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Saleha | 44 |
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. 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).
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Saleha a male or female name?
- Saleha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 1985) and Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Saleha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Saleha in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saleha.
- How common is the name Saleha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 950 people named Saleha in 2020, about 1 in 350 thousand residents.
- How common is Saleha compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Saleha is the 290th most common given name of 29,323 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/salehaThe 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, “Saleha” — the 290th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.