Salázar
surname · Latin script
Salázar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish, from sala (“hall”) + Basque zahar (“old”).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 89(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 180
- ECEcuador1 in 185
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 Salázar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #255 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 473 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89 (inferred from the name graph)
≈430,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Salazar in MX Mexico, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 4 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)From Spanish, from sala (“hall”) + Basque zahar (“old”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salázar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #44 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 303 | 8.9K | Salazar | 263 |
| CO Colombia | #37 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 293 | 78 | Salazar | 204 |
| VE Venezuela | #27 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 176 | 1K | Salazar | 126 |
| US United States | #586 | 152,703 | 1 in 2.2K | 153K | Salazar | 473 |
| PE Peru | #32 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 273 | 232K | Salazar | 149 |
| EC Ecuador | #13 | 91,432 | 1 in 185 | 91K | Salazar | 120 |
| CR Costa Rica | #14 | 57,037 | 1 in 89 | 57K | Salazar | 125 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the pe-reniec-name-freq register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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 Salázar mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish, from sala (“hall”) + Basque zahar (“old”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Salázar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 432 thousand people named Salázar in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salazar.
- Where is Salázar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salázar is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 89 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salázar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152,703 people named Salázar in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Salázar compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Salázar is the 44th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sal%C3%A1zarThe 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, “Salázar” — the 44th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.