Saldaňa
surname · Latin script
Saldaňa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Panama it is the 35th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Saldaña.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 1.4K
- UYUruguay1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 371 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
34,434 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Saldaña in PE Peru, MX Mexico, CO Colombia and 4 more and Saldana 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
(measured from records)From Spanish Saldaña.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saldaňa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 34,434 | 1 in 9.7K | 34K | Saldana | 371 |
| PE Peru | #149 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Saldaña | 66 |
| MX Mexico | #394 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 978 | Saldaña | 155 |
| CO Colombia | #702 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 5 | Saldaña | 55 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,009 | 1 in 8.3K | 6K | Saldaña | 105 |
| EC Ecuador | #534 | 5,145 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.1K | Saldaña | 24 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Saldaña | 22 |
| PA Panama | #35 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 38 | Saldaña | 41 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,925 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.9K | — | 25 |
34,434 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saldaňa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Saldaña. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Saldaňa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 34 thousand people named Saldaňa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saldana.
- How common is the name Saldaňa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 34,434 people named Saldaňa in 2010, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Saldaňa compared with other names?
- In Panama, Saldaňa is the 35th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salda%C5%88aThe 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, “Saldaňa” — the 35th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.