Salinas
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine plural of salino
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/salinas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salinas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 64th most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 336(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 493
- ARArgentina1 in 831
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #669 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 336 (inferred from the name graph)
81,156 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
feminine plural of salino
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Salinas is read(measured from records)
Salinas is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish69%
feminine plural of salino
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
river, city, CA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Salinas 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 | — | 81,156 | 1 in 4.1K | 81K | Salinas | 443 |
| CN China | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Salinas | 9 |
| AR Argentina | #132 | 54,755 | 1 in 831 | 55K | Salinas | 127 |
| PE Peru | #127 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 836 | — | Salinas | 105 |
| CL Chile | #104 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 493 | — | Salinas | 155 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 23,408 | 1 in 722 | 23K | Salinas | 71 |
| PY Paraguay | #64 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 336 | — | Salinas | 62 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 808 | — | Salinas | 56 |
81,156 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Salinas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
salt seller
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, variante regional hispânica de Salina.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, second-person singular present indicative of salinar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, mostly found in Cavite
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)
- Carmen Salinasb. 1939MXMexican actress, impressionist, comedian, politician and theatre entrepreneur (1939–2021)
- Carlos Salinas de Gortarib. 1948MX60th President of Mexico
- Julio Salinasb. 1962ESSpanish association football player
- Patxi Salinasb. 1963ESSpanish football player/manager/director
- Vicente Zeballosb. 1963PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician
- Ramiro Castillob. 1966BOnot in their usual nameBolivian footballer (1966-1997)
- Jorge Salinasb. 1968MXMexican television and film actor
- Claudia Ruiz Massieub. 1972MXnot in their usual nameMexican lawyer and politician
- Emiliano Salinasb. 1976MXSon of Mexican President Salinas, Political Activist
- Jorge Salinasb. 1992PYParaguayan association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- What does the name Salinas mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine plural of salino Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Salinas?
- A machine transcription gives /salinas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Salinas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 81 thousand people named Salinas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salinas.
- How common is the name Salinas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 81,156 people named Salinas in 2010, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Salinas compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Salinas is the 64th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salinasThe 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, “Salinas” — the 64th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.