Salah is a distinctive choice, ranked #1402 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Salah in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1402
About the Name Salah
Salah has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 440 places in five years. It was most popular in 2019 at #952 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Salah is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Salah
Unlikely. With around 19 UK babies named Salah per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Salah in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Salah has been declining in UK popularity, dropping 440 places in the last five years. Its peak was #952 in 2019. Choosing it now means he is likely to be among the last of his generation with this name.
Salah is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Salah include: Mohamed Salah — Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or right midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and...; Salah Al-Yahri — Salah Al-Yahri is a Qatari footballer plays for Al-Kharaitiyat as a midfielder.; Salah Mohammed Tubaigy — Salah Mohammed Abdah Al Tubaigy, also spelled Tubaiqi, is a Saudi forensic doctor..
Salah does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Salahs in the wild.
19
UK babies named Salah (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 440 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Salah
Likely around 1 other Salah in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Salah
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a right winger or right midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Egypt national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation and one of the greatest wingers of all time.
Salah Mohammed Abdah Al Tubaigy, also spelled Tubaiqi, is a Saudi forensic doctor. He was the head of the Saudi Scientific Council of Forensics and a colonel in the armed forces of Saudi Arabia.
Rishama Salah Choheili (Persian: صلاح چحیلی; also known as Ganzibra Ṣalah Jabbar Ṭawus Choheili; Arabic: صلاح الكحيلي Salah Al-Kuhaili; born 1952, Ahvaz, Iran) is an Iranian Mandaean priest in Australia. He is the head priest of Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia, as well as Wallacia Mandi in Wallacia, New South Wales.
Salah Rais (Arabic: صالح ريس) was the 7th King of Algiers, an Ottoman privateer. He is alternatively referred to as Sala Reis, Salih Rais, Salek Rais and Cale Arraez in several European sources, particularly in Spain, France and Italy.
Salah Al-Zawawi, or among Iranians Salah Zawawi, was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who served as the ambassador of Palestine to Iran. He was the second ambassador of Palestine to Iran after Hani al-Hassan and held this position from February 1981 to January 2022.
Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy (محمد صلاح الدين بهجت أحمد حلمى, IPA: [mæ'ħæmmæd sˤɑˈlɑːħ el-, edˈdiːn ˈbæhɡæt 'æħmæd ˈħelmi]), known as Salah Jaheen was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.
Salah Abdeslam is a Belgian Islamic terrorist who was sentenced to life in prison in France in 2022 as the only surviving member of a 10-man unit that carried out attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, in which 130 people were killed and more than 490 injured. Abdeslam was born and raised in the Molenbeek district of Brussels.