Sälg
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Estonian: foal (young horse)
Sälg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 397K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
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.
- Sweden (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26 people, est.
Reference-verified
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
goat willow, Salix caprea
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sälg is read(measured from records)
Sälg is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Estonian49%
foal (young horse)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swedish47%
goat willow, Salix caprea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sälg in Finnish.
- German14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sälg in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sälg 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 397K | — | Sälg | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 15 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | 109 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | — | listed | — | — |
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 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sälg 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 vro, back (of the body)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 15 | #7,400 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 10 | #10,905 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sälg come from?
- goat willow, Salix caprea Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Sälg mean?
- In Estonian, foal (young horse)
- In which country does Sälg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 people named Sälg in Sweden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sälg.
- How common is the name Sälg?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Sälg in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million 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, “Sälg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.