Sálm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sálm is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Name from the Judengasse in Frankfort on Main since 1776, it is a short form of Salomon (see next entry).
- EGEgypt≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K
- USUnited States1 in 309K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Libya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salm in US United States, EG Egypt, DE Germany and 5 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)Name from the Judengasse in Frankfort on Main since 1776, it is a short form of Salomon (see next entry).
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sálm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Salm | 33 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Salm | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Salm | 101 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Salm | 37 |
| LY Libya | #433 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Salm | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,076 | 1 in 309K | 1.1K | Salm | 227 |
| KW Kuwait | #903 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Salm | 14 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Salm | 12 |
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 2020. 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 Sálm mean, and where does it come from?
- Name from the Judengasse in Frankfort on Main since 1776, it is a short form of Salomon (see next entry). Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History and Nordic Names.
- Is Sálm a male or female name?
- Sálm is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sálm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Sálm in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salm.
- How common is the name Sálm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,076 people named Sálm in 2010, about 1 in 309 thousand residents.
- How common is Sálm compared with other names?
- In Libya, Sálm is the 433rd most common surname of 22,670 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A1lmThe 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, “Sálm” — the 433rd most common surname in Libya. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.