Salamà
surname · Latin script
Salamà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic سلامة (salāma, “good health”). This surname is predominantly found in Egypt.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.3K
- SYSyria≈1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, 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 Salama in EG Egypt, US United States, SY Syria and 3 more and Šãlãmã in LY Libya.
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)
Borrowed from Arabic سلامة (salāma, “good health”). This surname is predominantly found in Egypt.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salamà 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #49 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Salama | 160 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #482 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Salama | 82 |
| MA Morocco | #539 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | listed | Salama | 45 |
| SY Syria | #423 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Salama | 21 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Šãlãmã | 27 |
| US United States | — | 1,613 | 1 in 206K | 2.2K | Salama | 208 |
| KW Kuwait | #314 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Salama | 35 |
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. 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 Salamà mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic سلامة (salāma, “good health”). This surname is predominantly found in Egypt. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Salamà have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Salamà in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salama.
- How common is the name Salamà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,613 people named Salamà in 2010, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
- How common is Salamà compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Salamà is the 49th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salam%C3%A0The 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, “Salamà” — the 49th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.