Šalas
surname · Latin script
Šalas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish salas, plural form of sala. Šalas is also written Σαλας in Greek.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 113(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 430
- PEPeru≈1 in 480
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #414 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šalas in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salas in MX Mexico, US United States, PE Peru and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish salas, plural form of sala.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šalas is found
(measured from records)Šalas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #88 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 622 | 4K | Salas | 232 |
| PE Peru | #61 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 481 | — | Salas | 130 |
| VE Venezuela | #76 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 429 | — | Salas | 104 |
| US United States | #580 | 65,468 | 1 in 5.1K | 65K | Salas | 425 |
| CO Colombia | #187 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 20 | Salas | 163 |
| CR Costa Rica | #24 | 45,207 | 1 in 113 | 45K | Salas | 135 |
| CL Chile | #95 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 569 | 1 | Salas | 146 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šalas mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish salas, plural form of sala. Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šalas?
- Mondonomo estimates about 210 thousand people named Šalas in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salas. After it come Peru, Venezuela, United States and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šalas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šalas is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 113 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šalas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 65,468 people named Šalas in 2010, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Šalas compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Šalas is the 88th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1alasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šalas” — ranked 91st in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.