Salát
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lettuce (edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ˈsalaːt/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Salát is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 43K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 64K
- UYUruguay1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
485 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Salat in CZ Czechia and Šalát in SK Slovakia.
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)lettuce (edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salát 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.
485 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Salát 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 Filipino, in want; in need; poor, needy; scarce, scanty
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gergely Salátb. 1975HUHungarian sinologist, opinion journalist (1975–)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 249 | #4,987 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 248 | #6,759 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 85 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Salát mean, and where does it come from?
- lettuce (edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Salát?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈsalaːt/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /salaːt/; in Hungarian /ʃɒlat/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Salát have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 485 people named Salát, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Salát most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salát is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salát?
- In Spain, the national register counted 485 people named Salát, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sal%C3%A1tThe 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, “Salát”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.