Salahudin
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- sa-laah-ud-DEEN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,742 for boys
Salahudin is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “righteousness of the faith”. In 2025 it ranked 2,742nd for boys in the UK (8 babies).
What does Salahudin mean?
Arabic: spelling of Salahuddin
“righteousness of the faith”
Salah al-Din, known in Europe as Saladin, was the 12th-century sultan who retook Jerusalem from the crusaders in 1187.
Meaning borrowed from Salahuddin.
Is Salahudin a girl's or a boy's name?
Salahudin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Salahudin in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,742nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 37,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the UK were named Salahudin, making it the 2,742nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,108th.
2025 had the most boys named Salahudin of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Salahudin in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 69 boys in the UK were given Salahudin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #562, up from #2,742 for this spelling alone.
- Salahuddin 51
- Salahudeen 10
- Salahudin 8
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,658th in England and Wales.
Salahudin in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #2,742 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,219 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,108 |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,086 |
| 2014 | 5 | #3,529 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 4 | #3,836 |
| 2007 | 4 | #3,748 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #3,992 |
| 2004 | 1 | #4,870 |
| 2003 | 3 | #3,593 |
Nicknames for Salahudin
- Salah 17 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Salahudin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Abdullah, Mustafa, Zayd, Zayaan, Abdulrahman, Zayan, Musa, Ibrahim, Umar, Ahmed, Abdurrahman
Other spellings of Salahudin
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Salahudin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/salahudin, updated 20 October 2026.