Salim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili: 'peace'; also Muslim: 'healthy, safe, complete'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s̪aʎim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name.
- OMOman≈1 in 140(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 584
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 990
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 Salim 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saleem in PK Pakistan, ES Spain.
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)
Swahili: 'peace'; also Muslim: 'healthy, safe, complete'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #63 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 990 | listed | Salim | 91 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Saleem | 147 |
| DZ Algeria | #29 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 584 | listed | Salim | 89 |
| TZ Tanzania | #282 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Salim | 70 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Salim | 45 |
| OM Oman | #2 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | — | Salim | 112 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,861 | 1 in 27K | 1.9K | Saleem | 45 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; 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)
Salim 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.
In Turkish, safe, sound
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, 1. Sağ, salim, sağlıklı. 2. Eksiksiz, kusursuz. 3. Korkusuz, emin.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Salim är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’välmående, frisk’. Se även → Selim. En känd namnbärare är den syrisk-kurdiske författaren Salim Barakat (f. 1951).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, safe, secure, perfect, complete
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, safe, sound, perfect, complete
as a nameA Dictionary of 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)
- Salim I of Kuwaitb. 1864KWMonarch of Kuwait (1917 - 1921)
- Salim Alib. 1896INIndian ornithologist (1896-1987)
- Salim al-Hussb. 1929LBLebanese statesman (1929–2024)
- Salim Khanb. 1935INIndian actor and screenwriter
- Salim Ahmed Salimb. 1942TZTanzanian politician and diplomat
- Salem bin Ladenb. 1946SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian businessman (1946-1988)
- Salim Dawb. 1950ILPalestinian actor
- Salim Kechioucheb. 1979FRFrench actor
- Salim Arracheb. 1982FRAlgerian and French footballer
- Salim Aliyow Ibrowb. 2000SOSomali politician
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 118 sources across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #1,828 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #950 |
Reference works 11
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Salim mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: 'peace'; also Muslim: 'healthy, safe, complete' Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Salim?
- In the etymology graph, Süleyman, Selim and Salomon are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Salim?
- A machine transcription gives /s̪aʎim/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Salim a male or female name?
- Salim 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.
- In which country does Salim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 164 thousand people named Salim in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salim.
- How common is the name Salim?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,861 people named Salim, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Salim compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Salim is the 63rd 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/salimThe 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, “Salim” — the 63rd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.