Şalah
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Şalah 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. Recorded meaning: As an Islamic/Arabic surname, as well as a Jewish adoption of it, from صَلاة (ṣalāh, “piety, prayer”).
- 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 Şalah 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 Salah in EG Egypt, MA Morocco, DZ Algeria and 1 more, 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)
As an Islamic/Arabic surname, as well as a Jewish adoption of it, from صَلاة (ṣalāh, “piety, prayer”).
Sources 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 35 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şalah 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şalah mean, and where does it come from?
- As an Islamic/Arabic surname, as well as a Jewish adoption of it, from صَلاة (ṣalāh, “piety, prayer”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 7 other sources.
- Is Şalah a male or female name?
- Şalah 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 Şalah 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 Şalah?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,995 people named Şalah, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Şalah compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Şalah is the 27th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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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, “Şalah” — the 27th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.