Salaman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr Salomon/Salemon, a Hebrew name from shalom ‘peace’; first attested Salomon 1066 DB (Yorkshire)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salaman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 311K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 468K
- SESweden1 in 9.5Kas Solomon
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 Salaman 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 311K (inferred from the name graph)
25,997 named Solomon, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, 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)
from OFr Salomon/Salemon, a Hebrew name from shalom ‘peace’; first attested Salomon 1066 DB (Yorkshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salaman 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 | 25,997as Solomon | 1 in 13K | 47K | Salaman | 138 |
| SE Sweden | 1,073as Solomon | 1 in 9.5K | 1.1K | — | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 468K | 1 | Salaman | 11 |
| NO Norway | 237as Solomon | 1 in 23K | 664 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 234as Solomon | 1 in 164K | 234 | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Salaman | 12 |
| MD Moldova | 98as Solomon | 1 in 34K | 98 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 87as Solomon | 1 in 64K | 201 | — | — |
25,997 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling solomon. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population 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)
Salaman 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 German, variant spelling referring to Salman
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Russian, "peace."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Finnish, genitive singular of salama
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In uun, bowl
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)
- Malcolm Charles Salamanb. 1855GBBritish journalist (1855–1940)
- Redcliffe N. Salamanb. 1874GBBritish botanist (1874-1955)
- Nina Salamanb. 1877GBBritish Jewish poet, translator, and social activist
- Esther Salamanb. 1900GBRussian-British physicist, literary critic, writer, translator
- Myer Head Salamanb. 1902British pathologist
- Raphael Salamanb. 1906GBBritish collector and writer of hand tools
- Esther Salamanb. 1914GBBritish singer and daughter of Redcliffe N. Salaman
- Maureen Kennedy Salamanb. 1936USAmerican author, proponent of alternative medicine
- John Redcliffe Salamanb. 1937GB(born 1937)
- Clara Salamanb. 1967GBEnglish actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 366 | #55,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 337 | #63,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 313 | #60,230 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #59,460 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #389,104 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #920 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #81,086 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Salaman mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr Salomon/Salemon, a Hebrew name from shalom ‘peace’; first attested Salomon 1066 DB (Yorkshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Salaman a male or female name?
- Salaman is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Salaman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Solomon, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Salaman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,997 people named Solomon in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand 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/salamanThe 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, “Salaman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.