Salah is a boy's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “righteousness.” In 2024 it was given to 33 boys in the United States.
Salah at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Biblical & Christian · Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“righteousness”
About the name Salah
Salah belongs to the Biblical & Christian and Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “righteousness” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Salah first appears in Social Security records in 1972. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2652 in 2019, and in 2024 33 babies received the name — 954 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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