Salmån
surname · Latin script
Salmån is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic سلمان.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 356(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 610
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 774
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)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 356 (inferred from the name graph)
≈380,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salman in PK Pakistan, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia and 5 more.
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 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salmån 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 | #131 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 610 | listed | Salman | 141 |
| BD Bangladesh | #168 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Salman | 96 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #46 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 774 | — | Salman | 163 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Salman | 52 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #66 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Salman | 122 |
| BH Bahrain | #6 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 356 | — | Salman | 93 |
| US United States | — | 3,904 | 1 in 85K | 15K | Salman | 303 |
| KW Kuwait | #91 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Salman | 76 |
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 2010. 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Salmån 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.
- In which country does Salmån have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 383 thousand people named Salmån in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salman.
- How common is the name Salmån?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,904 people named Salmån in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Salmån compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Salmån is the 131st most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salm%C3%A5nThe 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, “Salmån” — the 131st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.