Saelah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Saelah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
Where does Saelah come from?
Modern: modern coinage
Is Saelah a girl's or a boy's name?
Saelah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saelah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,986th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26 about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 377% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Saelah, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Saelah in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 143 girls in the US were given Saelah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,321, up from #4,986 for this spelling alone.
Saelah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,770 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Names like Saelah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaliyah, Zaniyah, Safa, Salem, Aziyah, Hadassah, Nusaybah, Zayla, Alaiyah, Zalayah, Zaya, Kaliyah
Other spellings of Saelah
Names related to Saelah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saelah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saelah, updated 20 October 2026.