Saliha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Elverişli, iyi, uygun, yakışır
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salihˈa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saliha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 860(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 3.9K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 6.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 860 (inferred from the name graph)
≈95,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
1. Elverişli, iyi, uygun, yakışır. 2. Yetkisi ve hakkı olan. 3. Dinin buyruklarına uygun harekette bulunan.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saliha 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 | #184 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 860 | #99 | Saliha | 73 |
| DZ Algeria | #259 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Saliha | 35 |
| AF Afghanistan | #125 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Saliha | 13 |
| MA Morocco | #837 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Saliha | 27 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 3K | — | 3 |
| SY Syria | #436 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Saliha | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,433 | 1 in 35K | 1.4K | Saliha | 23 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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)
Saliha is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Arabic, pious, righteous, upright, just, virtuous, devoted; fem. of Salih. bas Ls Gaal! olbsbh oletls oLILAIL
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, pious, virtuous, just, chaste, righteous
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)
- Saliha Sultanb. 1715TROttoman princess, daughter of Ahmed III
- Saliha Sultanb. 1811TROttoman princess, daughter of Mahmud II
- Salihab. 1914TNTunisian singer
- Salleh Abasb. 1929MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian judge
- Saleh Alluhaidanb. 1932SAnot in their usual nameSaudi scholar, judge, imam, preacher, and member of the Council of Senior Scholars
- Saleh Al-Shehrib. 1993SAnot in their usual nameSaudi footballer
- Saleh Hardanib. 1996IRnot in their usual nameIranian association football player
- Saleh El-Sharabatyb. 1998JOnot in their usual nameJordanian taekwondo practitioner
- Saliha Şahinb. 1998TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1998)
- mohamad Saleh AsadiIRnot in their usual nameIranian military intelligence officer (died 2026)
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 51 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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 are other forms of the name Saliha?
- In the etymology graph, Salha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Saliha?
- A machine transcription gives /salihˈa/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Saliha a male or female name?
- Saliha is a female 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.
- What does the name Saliha mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Elverişli, iyi, uygun, yakışır.
- In which country does Saliha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Saliha in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saliha.
- How common is the name Saliha?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,433 people named Saliha, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Saliha compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Saliha is the 184th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saliha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salihaThe 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, “Saliha” — the 184th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.