Salim
Built on the Semitic root s-l-m, the same three letters behind shalom and salaam, and it keeps their sense: safe, unharmed. In Poland it stays rare, given only to boys and carried by around 200 men.
Salim Pronunciation
Salim is pronounced SAH-leem (/ˈsalim/).
What Salim means
Where Salim comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Salim grows from the Semitic root s-l-m, the same three consonants behind Hebrew shalom and Arabic salaam. In its Hebrew origin that root means being whole and unharmed. The meaning is plain. The short sense stays with it: safe, sound, intact.
Though the root is Hebrew, the name belongs above all to the Arabic-speaking world, where boys have carried Salim for many centuries. There it sits close to the everyday word for peace, since both came from the same handful of letters. A child named Salim on a Warsaw class register brings that history into a Polish room without translation.
What the name promises is protection rather than glory. It says the one who carries it is kept from harm and sound in body. That sense reaches back past Arabic to the older Hebrew root, and it has not drifted far. Salim still means what it meant: safe.
How many people are named Salim
1 in 107267 men in Poland is named Salim. 199 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2234 among male names.
Salim's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Salim as a middle name
Salim is a first name for 199 men in Poland and a middle name for another 66, a 75/25 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 894th, between Obinna (66) and Stan (66).
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#892 Lucien66
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#893 Obinna66
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#894 Salim66
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#895 Stan66
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#896 Derek65