Sälle

surname · Latin script

Meaning: definite natural masculine singular of säll

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

  • UYUruguay1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 135K
  • ARArgentina1 in 327K

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.

United States (measured from records)

494 people, 2010

Record sources
235 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Salle in US United States.

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)

definite natural masculine singular of säll

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sälle 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 Sälle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4941 in 673K630Salle235
BR Brazil3481 in 608K348—2
UY Uruguay2391 in 14K239——
AR Argentina1391 in 327K139—1
BE Belgium871 in 135K87—9
SE Sweden≈42 est.≈1 in 250K33Sälle5

494 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Sälle is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swedish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Sallé, Salle

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Salle

  • Finnish name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Salle, Sallé

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sälle 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 Sälle mean, and where does it come from?
definite natural masculine singular of säll Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Sälle have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 494 people named Sälle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salle.
Where is Sälle most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sälle is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sälle?
In the United States, the national register counted 494 people named Sälle in 2010, about 1 in 673 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, “Sälle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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