Salvaggio
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante setentrional de Selvaggio, por cruzamento com salvare
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/salbaɡxjo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Salvaggio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 282K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K
- PLPoland1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
1,547 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variante setentrional de Selvaggio, por cruzamento com salvare.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salvaggio 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 | 1,547 | 1 in 215K | 1.7K | Salvaggio | 85 |
| BE Belgium | 242 | 1 in 48K | 277 | Salvaggio | 14 |
| AR Argentina | 161 | 1 in 282K | 161 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 20 | 1 in 864K | 20 | Salvaggio | 7 |
1,547 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Tony Salvaggiob. 1958FRFrench politician
- Sasà Salvaggiob. 1968ITItalian actor
- Luca Salvaggiob. 1993ITItalian archaeologist (born 1993)
- Eryk Salvaggioartist, Research Advisor for Emerging Technology at the Siegel Family Endowment
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #16,022 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,036 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,921 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 277 | #6,266 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 242 | #6,908 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 161 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 20 | #49,628 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Salvaggio?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /salbaɡxjo/; in Italian /salvadd͡ʒo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Salvaggio mean?
- Recorded meaning: variante setentrional de Selvaggio, por cruzamento com salvare.
- In which country does Salvaggio have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Salvaggio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvaggio.
- Where is Salvaggio most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salvaggio is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salvaggio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,547 people named Salvaggio in 2010, about 1 in 215 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salvaggioThe 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, “Salvaggio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.