Saladin

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: First sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who led the Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sælədɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Saladin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 279K
  • USUnited States1 in 300K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (measured from records)

1,111 people, 2024

Sources
167 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the medieval sultan name Saladin; later also Jewish from ON Soldin

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Saladin is read(measured from records)

Saladin is one spelling over 3 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.

  • English48%

    First sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who led the Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant.

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

    Muslim hero & sultan

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • French21%

    individual, from the Arabic title, Salah-ad-Din ‘Justice of the Faith’, of the great Moslem leader Yusuf ibn-Ayyub, who opposed, for the most part successfully, the Crusades undertaken by Richard I of England and Philip II of

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • Spanish12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Saladin in Spanish.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Saladin 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 Saladin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland1,1111 in 7.6K1.1KSaladin26
US United States1,1071 in 300K1.1KSaladin57
AR Argentina1301 in 350K130——
BR Brazil461 in 4.6M46——
BE Belgium421 in 279K42Saladin11
NL Netherlands281 in 617K28—3

1,111 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Saladin is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Kuwait, Tunisia

    Also written Sáládín

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Saladín

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Switzerland, Philippines

    Also written Saladín

  • Croatian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Serbia, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Salahudin, Саладин, Салахудин

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Саладин, Саладін, Saladín

42 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)

Saladin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, from the medieval sultan name Saladin; later also Jewish from ON Soldin

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Italian, redução dialetal setentrional de Saladino.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In German, ägypt, Sultan im MA. (S. 33). Salatin, Sa- lent I ijn, iny; jüd. < ON. Soldin

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

16001700180019002000Louis Saladin, b. 1601Charles-Antoine Saladin, b. 1761Henri Saladin, b. 1851Guntram Saladin, b. 1887Lorenz Saladin, b. 1896Fritz Saladin, b. 1909Jean-Christophe Saladin, b. 1948Fritz Saladin, b. 1950Olivier Saladin, b. 1952Barbara Saladin, b. 1976

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)

FormalDear Mr Saladin,
InformalHi Saladin,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Saladin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.1K#1,053
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#23,084
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020995#25,911
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000968#24,271
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—130—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—46#111,063
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200842#29,625
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200728#42,949
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Saladin come from?
from the medieval sultan name Saladin; later also Jewish from ON Soldin Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Saladin?
A machine transcription gives /sælədɪn/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Saladin mean?
In English, First sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who led the Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant.
In which country does Saladin have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Saladin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saladin.
Where is Saladin most common?
Saladin is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Saladin?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,111 people named Saladin in 2024, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.

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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, “Saladin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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