Saelim
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Saelim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- THThailand≈1 in 3Kas แสงทอง(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 141Kas Salim
- INIndia1 in 366Kas Salim
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 Saelim itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 named แสงทอง, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
25 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Salim in US United States, IN India, NL Netherlands, แสงทอง in TH Thailand, Sangthong in NO Norway and สังข์ทอง in ID Indonesia.
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)
Saelim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #1 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | #5,215 | แสงทอง | 126 |
| IN India | — | 3,620as Salim | 1 in 366K | 3.6K | Salim | 128 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | สังข์ทอง | 10 |
| US United States | — | 2,364as Salim | 1 in 141K | 4.1K | Salim | 309 |
| AR Argentina | — | 671as Salim | 1 in 68K | 671 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 480as Salim | 1 in 11K | 558 | Sangthong | 15 |
| DK Denmark | — | 240as Salim | 1 in 24K | 240 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 208as Salim | 1 in 3.6K | 208 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 134as Salim | 1 in 42K | 256 | — | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 598 | Salim | 26 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Saelim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named แสงทอง in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Saelim?
- In India, the national register counted 3,620 people named Salim, about 1 in 366 thousand residents.
- How common is Saelim compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Saelim is the most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saelim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saelimThe 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, “Saelim” — the most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.