Saylem
Girl · SAY-lem · Hebrew
Saylem is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “peace”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Saylem mean?
Hebrew: respelling of Salem, a biblical place name
“peace”
Salem is the biblical city of Melchizedek, traditionally identified with Jerusalem; also the Massachusetts town of the 1692 witch trials.
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- SAY-lem
Is Saylem a girl's or a boy's name?
Saylem is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saylem in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 92% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Saylem, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
2025 had fewer girls named Saylem than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Saylem in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 723 girls in the US were given Saylem or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #448, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
- Salem 711
- Saylem 12
Saylem in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
Names like Saylem
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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