Salazar

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Salazar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname. In Spanish, recorded as ately of Basque origin, from Romance sala hall (see Sale i) + Basque zahar old; cf. Saavedra. In some cases the sur¬ name may derive from a place so called in the province of Burgos.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 89(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 177
  • ECEcuador1 in 185

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 people, est.

#255 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
473 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 89 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SalazarLatin(measured from records)
СалазарCyrillic(measured from records)
ΣαλαζάρGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

person from Salazar, Spain; probably from a place-name meaning 'old hall'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Salazar is read(measured from records)

Salazar 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.

  • Spanish73%

    ately of Basque origin, from Romance sala hall (see Sale i) + Basque zahar old; cf. Saavedra. In some cases the sur¬ name may derive from a place so called in the province of Burgos.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

    mately of Basque origin, from Romance sala hall (see Sale 1) + Basque zahar old; cf. Saavedra. In some cases the surname may derive from a place so called in the province of Burgos.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • English16%

    person from Salazar, Spain; probably from a place-name meaning 'old hall'

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Alberto, US runner

    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)

Salazar 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 Salazar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#27≈160,000 est.≈1 in 1771KSalazar126
US United States#586152,7031 in 2.2K153KSalazar473
CO Colombia#37≈130,000 est.≈1 in 39078Salazar204
PE Peru#32≈110,000 est.≈1 in 279232KSalazar149
PH Philippines#73≈110,000 est.≈1 in 994—Salazar134
EC Ecuador#1391,4321 in 18591KSalazar120
CR Costa Rica#1457,0371 in 8957KSalazar125
BO Bolivia—≈33,000 est.≈1 in 350—Salazar79

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: the pe-reniec-name-freq register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Salazar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Säläzär, Sålåzår, Salazár, Sàlâzár, Sálázár

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Salazár, Sala-Zar, Salázar

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Salazàr

  • Hungarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sálázár, Säläzär, Śáĺáźáŕ, Sàlâzár, Sãlãzãr

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Salazar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Salazar, Spain

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

1400160018002000Juan de Oñate, b. 1550Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, b. 1798Emiliano Zapata, b. 1879António de Oliveira Salazar, b. 1889Enrique Camarena, b. 1947Ken Salazar, b. 1955María Elvira Salazar, b. 1961Lisset, b. 1973Ramón Salazar, b. 1973Rosa Salazar, b. 1985

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)

Attested in 54 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Salazar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PE PeruRENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025)2025232K#36
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010153K#179
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020151K#177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000113K#240
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202491K#30
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—91K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—57K#27
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19951.8K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024881—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—78#42
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

Where does the name Salazar come from?
person from Salazar, Spain; probably from a place-name meaning 'old hall' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What does the name Salazar mean?
In Spanish, ately of Basque origin, from Romance sala hall (see Sale i) + Basque zahar old; cf. Saavedra. In some cases the sur¬ name may derive from a place so called in the province of Burgos.
In which country does Salazar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 162 thousand people named Salazar in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salazar.
Where is Salazar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salazar is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 89 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Salazar?
In the United States, the national register counted 152,703 people named Salazar in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
How common is Salazar compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Salazar is the 27th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Salazar” — the 27th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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