Salés
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of salar
Salés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 4.3K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.2K
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 Salés 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sales in PH Philippines, ES Spain, US United States 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)second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of salar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Salés is read
(measured from records)Salés is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish41%
second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of salar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French38%
masculine plural of salé
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salés in English.
- Portuguese5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salés in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salés 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #373 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Sales | 60 |
| US United States | — | 10,439 | 1 in 32K | 11K | Sales | 233 |
| GT Guatemala | #172 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Sales | 18 |
| ES Spain | #674 | 6,461 | 1 in 7.7K | 6.5K | Sales | 125 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 83 | Sales | 112 |
| PT Portugal | #330 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | listed | Sales | 95 |
| SV El Salvador | #464 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Sales | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 519as Salles | 1 in 6.5K | 519 | — | 24 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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)Salés 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 Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of salar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Salés mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular voseo present subjunctive of salar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Salés have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Salés in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sales.
- How common is the name Salés?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,439 people named Salés in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Salés compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Salés is the 373rd most common surname of 876,464 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/sal%C3%A9sThe 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, “Salés” — the 373rd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.