Gender-neutral · #435 in 2025
Salem
Salem: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #435
- Born 2025
- 711
- Peak year
- 2023
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 girls born
Recent trend
Salem has been rising: its share of girls born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 96% of its 2023 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 62% of children named Salem were recorded as girls and 38% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.