Salai
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səlaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salai is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 41K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 133K
- NONorway1 in 161K
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 Salai 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.
- North Macedonia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
204 named Салаи
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Šalai in HR Croatia.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MK North Macedonia | 204as Салаи | 1 in 10K | 204 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 163 | 1 in 1.3M | 163 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 104 | 1 in 41K | 104 | Šalai | 19 |
| IN India | 83 | 1 in 16M | 83 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 63 | 1 in 133K | 63 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 3 |
204 people counted by State Statistical Office — living population names. 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: State Statistical Office — living population names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Salai is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, first-person singular past historic of salare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, first-person singular past historic of saler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, dative singular of sala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In liv, thief
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 163 | #43,409 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 104 | #7,683 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 83 | #32,108 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 80 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 63 | #15,671 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #32,562 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #2,493 |
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 Salai?
- A machine transcription gives /səlaɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Salai have the most bearers?
- In North Macedonia, the national register counted about 204 people named Салаи, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Salai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salai is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though North Macedonia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 163 people named Salai, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salaiThe 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, “Salai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.