Salih is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Salih in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Salih in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Salih by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Salih ranks at #4,175. That means there are 4,174 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Salih.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Salih. Boys named Salih have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,189 Salih ranked higher than ever in 1974. By comparison, there have been 102 years in which the first name Salih has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1997. In general, parents name their sons Salih only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Salih was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Salih continues to be a precious jewel: 17 newborns were named Salih that year, ranking #4,674 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Salih, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Salih is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Salih can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Salih. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Salih living in one state or another. (If your name is Salih and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Salih is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00008% of all male residents are called Salih – that’s just one in 1,276,610! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 15 men going by that name. So, if your name is Salih, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Salih is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Salih and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Salih, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Salih
Salih
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
L
I
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
L
I
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Salih sounds like this:
