Salème

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Salème is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 72K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 402K
  • SESweden1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

632 people

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Saleme 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Salème 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 Salème is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina6321 in 72K632——
BR Brazil5271 in 402K527——
US United States1441 in 2.3M147Saleme10
ES Spain191 in 2.6M19——
SE Sweden71 in 1.5M7——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

632 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Salème is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Saleme, Salemé

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese

    Also written Saleme, Sáleme, Salemé

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 Salème 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

Is Salème a male or female name?
Salème is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Salème have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 632 people named Salème, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Salème most common?
Salème is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Salème?
In Argentina, the national register counted 632 people named Salème, about 1 in 72 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, “Salème”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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