Salem
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#436
down −4 places
2025 births
711
down −7 births
All-time births
6,491
11% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2023
- 734 births
- Best rank
- #417
- in 2023
- First recorded
- 1976
- #6,472 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2018
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 49 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2023734#417Peak
- 2024718#432
- 2025711#436
- 2022700#448
- 2021614#506
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #417 in 2023 · peak births 734 in 2023
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 42% boys■ 58% girls
4,687 boys · 6,491 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Salem has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.