Salva
surname · Latin script
Meaning: salvo, volley
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8K
- ESSpain1 in 21K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shalva in SK Slovakia, ID Indonesia.
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)
salvo, volley
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Salva | 49 |
| AR Argentina | #717 | 7,079 | 1 in 6.4K | 7.1K | Salva | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Shalva | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,370 | 1 in 21K | 2.4K | Salva | 116 |
| US United States | — | 1,474 | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Salva | 160 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Salva | 16 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 219 | 1 in 25K | 219 | Shalva | 3 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Salva is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Salva in Dio
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Italian, discharge of an unloaded gun, often for celebratory purposes; volley, salvo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, salvo (salute paid by simultaneous firing of cannons)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of salve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine singular of salv
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)
- Karol Salvab. 1849SKSlovak writer (1849-1913)
- Pierre Salvab. 1917FRFrench crime writer
- Marcel Salvab. 1922FRFrench association football player (1922-2005)
- Héctor Salvab. 1939UYUruguayan footballer (1939-2015)
- Victor Salvab. 1958USAmerican film director
- Jesús Salvab. 2000PEPeruvian para badminton 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 52 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 304 | #6,548 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 246 | #3,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 83 | #50,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #50,999 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2023 | 2 | #5,176 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1945 | 2 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Salva mean, and where does it come from?
- salvo, volley Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Salva?
- A machine transcription gives /salba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Salva?
- In the etymology graph, Salvo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Salva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Salva in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salva.
- Where is Salva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salva is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 6.4 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salva?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 7,079 people named Salva, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Salva compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Salva is the 717th most common surname of 398,256 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/salvaThe 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, “Salva” — the 717th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.