Salvi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Salvadoran person born or raised in the United States
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/salbi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Salvi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 15K
- UYUruguay1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Salvi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, 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
(measured from records)A Salvadoran person born or raised in the United States.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salvi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Salvi | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 2,965 | 1 in 71K | 3K | — | — |
| FR France | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 356 | Salvi | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 1,607 | 1 in 28K | 1.6K | — | — |
| IN India | 1,470 | 1 in 902K | 1.5K | Salvi | 164 |
| CH Switzerland | 551 | 1 in 15K | 551 | Salvi | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 165 | 1 in 21K | 165 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)Salvi 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.
In Italian, do nome latino cristão Salvus/Salvius; forma patronímica plural.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Abbreviazione di Diolsalvi, ma anche forma toscana di Silvio (San Salvi).
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, masculine plural of salvo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection of salvar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of salvus:
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)- Giovanni Battista Salvib. 1609ITItalian painter (1609–1685)
- Antonio Salvib. 1664ITItalian poet (1664-1724)
- Nicola Salvib. 1697ITItalian architect (1697-1751)
- Paolo Salvib. 1891ITItalian gymnast (1891–1945)
- Victor Salvib. 1920USAmerican musician
- Emimmo Salvib. 1926ITItalian film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Cesare Salvib. 1948ITItalian lawyer, jurist and politician
- Francesco Salvib. 1953ITItalian actor, writer, comedian, singer and architect
- Enzo Salvib. 1963ITItalian actor
- Mirko Salvib. 1994CHSwiss association football 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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,450 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.5K | #4,022 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 551 | #2,323 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 487 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 481 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 400 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 367 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 356 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 335 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 326 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 224 | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Salvi mean, and where does it come from?
- A Salvadoran person born or raised in the United States. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Salvi?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /salbi/; in Portuguese /salbi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Salvi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Salvi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvi.
- How common is the name Salvi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,965 people named Salvi, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Salvi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salviThe 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, “Salvi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.