Saalim
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- sa-LEEM
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,329 for boys
Saalim is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “safe, sound, flawless”. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies).
What does Saalim mean?
Arabic: spelling of Salim
“safe, sound, flawless”
Salim was the birth name of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, son of Akbar.
Meaning borrowed from Salim.
Is Saalim a girl's or a boy's name?
Saalim is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saalim in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,329among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Saalim, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys.
2025 had the most boys named Saalim of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.
In 2025, 37 boys in the UK were given Saalim or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #822, up from #3,329 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.
Saalim in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #3,639 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #4,995 |
Names like Saalim
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad Musa Zayd Umar Amir Zayaan Raheem Hamza Ibrahim Mustafa Hakeem Zayyan
Other spellings of Saalim
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Kairo Safa
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saalim: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saalim, updated 20 October 2026.