Salgado

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician]

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/salgaðo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Salgado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 37th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 345(inferred from the name graph)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 350
  • CLChile≈1 in 971

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

47,555 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
390 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 345 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SalgadoLatin(measured from records)
СальгадоCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

salty; false cognate of Elmaleh, meaning a good person

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Salgado is read(measured from records)

Salgado 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.

  • Spanish68%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Salgado in Spanish.

  • English15%

    A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese8.6%

    relating to salt

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

    salty

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Salgado 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.

Where Salgado is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#26447,5551 in 4.5K48KSalgado183
US United States—45,4691 in 7.3K45KSalgado390
CO Colombia#219≈30,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K21Salgado148
HN Honduras#37≈26,000 est.≈1 in 350—Salgado66
CL Chile#152≈19,000 est.≈1 in 971—Salgado126
NI Nicaragua#41≈18,000 est.≈1 in 345—Salgado41
SV El Salvador#241≈4,100 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Salgado42

47,555 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Salgado is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Salgådô, Sâlgâdô, Sälgädö, Saelgaedoe

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Croatia, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Салгадо, Sálgádó

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Salgado 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.

  • salty; false cognate of Elmaleh, meaning a good person

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In hil, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician], mostly found in Negros Occidental

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, past participle of salgar

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Plínio Salgado, b. 1895Sebastião Salgado, b. 1944Manuel Salgado, b. 1944Elena Salgado, b. 1949Luz Salgado, b. 1949Leonardo Salgado, b. 1962Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, b. 1974Míchel Salgado, b. 1975Carla Zambelli, b. 1980Chechu Salgado, b. 1991

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Salgado,Dear Salgado, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Salgado,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Salgado
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—48K#459
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201045K#759
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202044K#771
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200032K#1,012
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—21#95
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Where does the name Salgado come from?
salty; false cognate of Elmaleh, meaning a good person Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Salgado?
A machine transcription gives /salgaðo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Salgado mean?
In English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
In which country does Salgado have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Salgado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salgado.
How common is the name Salgado?
In Brazil, the national register counted 47,555 people named Salgado, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
How common is Salgado compared with other names?
In Brazil, Salgado is the 264th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Salgado” — the 264th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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