Salaj
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Salaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 4.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 7K
- SISlovenia1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
603 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salaj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #781 | 603 | 1 in 7K | 603 | Salaj | 43 |
| AL Albania | #763 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Salaj | 26 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 137 | 1 in 78K | 137 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Salaj | 37 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 567K | — | Salaj | 3 |
| ME Montenegro | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Salaj | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 54 | 1 in 39K | 54 | — | 2 |
603 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Đuro Salajb. 1889HRYugoslav politician (1889–1958)
- Jozef Salajb. 1932SK1932--2011; Salaj, J.; Salaj, Joseph
- Ivan Salajb. 1961RSSerbian basketball player (1961-2020)
- Bojan Salajb. 1964SISloveens
- Alenka Temeljotov SalajSIresearcher
- Blendi SalajALAlbanian translator
- František SalajCZCzech canoeist
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 603 | #1,113 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 506 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 137 | #12,488 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 136 | #6,715 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 54 | #7,245 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Salaj have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 603 people named Salaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salaj.
- How common is the name Salaj?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 603 people named Salaj in 2021, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Salaj compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Salaj is the 781st most common surname of 72,581 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/salajThe 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, “Salaj” — the 781st most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.