Salmãn

given name · Latin script

Salmãn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic سلمان.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 85K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 7.1K
  • NONorway1 in 20K

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)

3,904 people, 2020

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Salman in US United States, ES Spain.

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 Arabic سلمان.

Sources 8

  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Salmãn 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 Salmãn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,9041 in 85K4.3KSalman92
SE Sweden1,4321 in 7.1K1.4K—10
ES Spain9431 in 53K943Salman35
NO Norway2731 in 20K934—3
FI Finland1691 in 33K332—3
DK Denmark1331 in 44K253——
GY Guyana181 in 42K18——

3,904 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Salmãn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Salmãn mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic سلمان. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 6 other sources.
Is Salmãn a male or female name?
Salmãn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Salmãn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Salmãn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salman.
Where is Salmãn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salmãn is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 7.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Salmãn?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,904 people named Salmãn in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salm%C3%A3n

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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, “Salmãn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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