Saleemi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/səlimi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saleemi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 41K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 119K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saleemi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Saleemi | 41 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Saleemi | 7 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 195 | Saleemi | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 716K | 186 | Saleemi | 64 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 465K | — | Saleemi | 11 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Saleemi | 16 |
| SE Sweden | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | Saleemi | 5 |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | Saleemi | 3 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Saleemi | 6 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 195 | #99,304 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 186 | #22,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38 | #15,758 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #38,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Saleemi?
- A machine transcription gives /səlimi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Saleemi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Saleemi in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saleemi.
- How common is the name Saleemi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Saleemi in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saleemiThe 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, “Saleemi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.