Sàlmi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sàlmi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *salmi, from Proto-Finno-Permic *śolma. Cognates include Northern Sami čoalbmi (“narrow in lake”), Skolt Sami čuäˊlmm (“sound, narrows”) and possibly Udmurt сюм (śum, “bay, cove”).
- FIFinland1 in 320(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 21K
- NONorway1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 320 (inferred from the name graph)
17,413 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salmi in FI Finland, US United States, ES Spain and 1 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)
- Proto-Finnic*salmi(measured from records)
- Proto-Finno-Permic*śolma(measured from records)
From Proto-Finnic *salmi, from Proto-Finno-Permic *śolma. Cognates include Northern Sami čoalbmi (“narrow in lake”), Skolt Sami čuäˊlmm (“sound, narrows”) and possibly Udmurt сюм (śum, “bay, cove”). Finnish dialectal jolma is a Saami loan.
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sàlmi 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.
17,413 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Sàlmi mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *salmi, from Proto-Finno-Permic *śolma. Cognates include Northern Sami čoalbmi (“narrow in lake”), Skolt Sami čuäˊlmm (“sound, narrows”) and possibly Udmurt сюм (śum, “bay, cove”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sàlmi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Sàlmi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salmi.
- Where is Sàlmi most common?
- Sàlmi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 320 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sàlmi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 17,413 people named Sàlmi, about 1 in 320 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A0lmiThe 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, “Sàlmi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.