Šalts

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Spēcīgi, spēji plūstošs (šķidras vielas) kopums

Šalts is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 132K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 611K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

544 people, 2010

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

recorded in Latvian

Spēcīgi, spēji plūstošs (šķidras vielas) kopums

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šalts 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.

Where Šalts is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5441 in 611K657——
LV Latvia≈14 est.≈1 in 132K—Šalts5
GB United Kingdom——46—1
EE Estonia——listed——

544 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Šalts is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Honduras, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written SaltS

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Šalts is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, neliels laika sprīdis, brīdis

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Šalts under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Šalts mean?
Recorded meaning: Spēcīgi, spēji plūstošs (šķidras vielas) kopums
In which country does Šalts have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 544 people named Šalts, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Šalts?
In the United States, the national register counted 544 people named Šalts in 2010, about 1 in 611 thousand residents.

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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, “Šalts”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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