Sălïm
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sălïm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: sound, affable, healthy, guarded, perfect, complete, safe, secure.
- USUnited States1 in 141K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 366K
- THThailand≈1 in 3Kas แสงทอง
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sălïm itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 named แสงทอง, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
27 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salim in US United States, IN India, แสงทอง in TH Thailand, Sangthong in NO Norway and สังข์ทอง in ID Indonesia.
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)
sound, affable, healthy, guarded, perfect, complete, safe, secure
Sources 5
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sălïm 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #1 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | #5,215 | แสงทอง | 126 |
| IN India | — | 3,620 | 1 in 366K | 3.6K | Salim | 128 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | สังข์ทอง | 10 |
| US United States | — | 2,364 | 1 in 141K | 4.1K | Salim | 309 |
| AR Argentina | — | 671 | 1 in 68K | 671 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 480 | 1 in 11K | 558 | Sangthong | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 240 | 1 in 24K | 240 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 208 | 1 in 3.6K | 208 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 134 | 1 in 42K | 256 | — | 5 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Sălïm mean, and where does it come from?
- sound, affable, healthy, guarded, perfect, complete, safe, secure Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 3 other sources.
- Is Sălïm a male or female name?
- Sălïm 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 Sălïm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named แสงทอง in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sălïm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sălïm is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sălïm?
- In India, the national register counted 3,620 people named Sălïm, about 1 in 366 thousand residents.
- How common is Sălïm compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Sălïm is the most common surname of 1,135,150 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%C4%83l%C3%AFmThe 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, “Sălïm” — the most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.