Salerno
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: Salerno (a city and province of Campania, Italy)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Salerno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 11K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 15K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 17K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
9,440 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Salerno (a city and province of Campania, Italy)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Salerno is read(measured from records)
Salerno is one spelling over 3 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.
- English59%
prov & town, Italy
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salerno in Spanish.
- Italian6.8%
Salerno (a city and province of Campania, Italy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
natural da cidade de Salerno; do pré-lat. sala, 'canal'.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Salerno 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 | 9,440 | 1 in 35K | 9.4K | Salerno | 106 |
| AR Argentina | 4,128 | 1 in 11K | 4.1K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 1,732 | 1 in 122K | 1.7K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 508 | 1 in 17K | 508 | Salerno | 18 |
| ES Spain | 340 | 1 in 147K | 340 | Salerno | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 229 | 1 in 51K | 251 | Salerno | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | 227 | 1 in 15K | 227 | — | — |
9,440 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); 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)
Salerno is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Salernum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Province Itālijā ("Provincia di Salerno"), Kampānijas reģionā, platība - 4918 kvadrātkilometru, 1092300 iedzīvotāju (2012. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Itālijā ("Salerno"), Kampānijas reģionā, provinces administratīvais centrs, 131800 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicola Salernob. 1910ITItalian lyricist, illustrator (1910–1969)
- Enrico Maria Salernob. 1926ITItalian actor (1926–1994)
- Joseph Salernob. 1950USAmerican economist
- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenbergb. 1961USItalian musician
- Andrea Salernob. 1965ITItalian journalist
- Sabrina Salernob. 1968ITItalian singer, actress and model (born 1968)
- Sandrine Salernob. 1971CHSwiss politician
- Shane Salernob. 1972USAmerican screenwriter
- Robert Salernob. 1972USAmerican film director
- Cristiano Salernob. 1985ITItalian road cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.4K | #3,751 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.3K | #3,498 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.7K | #3,952 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,570 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 508 | #2,542 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 340 | #10,922 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 340 | #10,890 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 251 | #6,991 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 229 | #7,355 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 227 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Salerno mean, and where does it come from?
- Salerno (a city and province of Campania, Italy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Salerno have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Salerno, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salerno.
- Where is Salerno most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salerno is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salerno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,440 people named Salerno in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salernoThe 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, “Salerno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.