Salamé
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Salamé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Lebanese variant of Salama.
- ARArgentina1 in 323K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 59K
- DKDenmark1 in 122K
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)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
590 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salame in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 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)Lebanese variant of Salama.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salamé 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 | 590 | 1 in 564K | 612 | Salame | 77 |
| BR Brazil | 473 | 1 in 448K | 473 | Salame | 51 |
| SE Sweden | 172 | 1 in 59K | 172 | — | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 141 | 1 in 323K | 141 | Salame | 25 |
| ES Spain | 122 | 1 in 410K | 122 | Salame | 28 |
| DK Denmark | 48 | 1 in 122K | 48 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | — | 3 |
590 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joseph Salaméb. 1914LBLebanese politician (1914-2004)
- Ramzi F. Salaméb. 1946CAprofessor at Université Laval
- Riad Salamehb. 1950LBnot in their usual nameformer Governor of the central bank of Lebanon
- Ghassan Salaméb. 1951LBLebanese political scientist
- Ramzi T. Salaméb. 1953FRLebanese writer and artist (1953–2023)
- Barouk Salaméb. 1953FRFrench writer
- Youssef Salaméb. 1954LBLebanese politician
- George Salamehb. 1976LBnot in their usual nameLebanese alpine skier
- Léa Salaméb. 1979LBFrench-Lebanese journalist
- Rafael García Salaméb. 2000ESSpanish basketball 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Salamé mean, and where does it come from?
- Lebanese variant of Salama. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Salamé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 590 people named Salamé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salame.
- Where is Salamé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salamé is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salamé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 590 people named Salamé in 2010, about 1 in 564 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salam%C3%A9The 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, “Salamé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.