Salix
- Gender
- Boy
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Salix is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
Is Salix a girl's or a boy's name?
Salix is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Salix in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Salix, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 9 boys. It first appears in the records in 2015.
Half of all the boys named Salix in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Salix in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
Names like Salix
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Felix, Henry, Otto, August, Charlie, Silas, Moses, Fletcher, Ellis, Ambrose, Alonzo, Emmett
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, “Salix: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/salix, updated 20 October 2026.