Salem
18
Babies in 2024
+260%
10-year change
2023
Peak · 22
-18%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Salem
Salem is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (18) are up 260% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Salem reached its peak in 2023, when 22 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,243 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 18 represents 82% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 249 boys have been officially registered with the name Salem in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 125 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 18 in 2024.