Salas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person living by sallows; (ii) from the religious name Sales/Francis de Sales; (iii) person from Sales, Portugal
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Salas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 113(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 430
- PEPeru≈1 in 495
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #414 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113 (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
(i) person living by sallows; (ii) from the religious name Sales/Francis de Sales; (iii) person from Sales, Portugal
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #76 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 430 | — | Salas | 104 |
| US United States | #580 | 65,468 | 1 in 5.1K | 65K | Salas | 425 |
| PE Peru | #61 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 495 | — | Salas | 130 |
| CR Costa Rica | #24 | 45,207 | 1 in 113 | 45K | Salas | 135 |
| AR Argentina | #162 | 41,411 | 1 in 1.1K | 41K | Salas | 121 |
| CL Chile | #95 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 697 | 1 | Salas | 146 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 980 | — | Salas | 57 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Salas 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 Filipino, alternative form of sala (“living room”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, second-person singular past historic of saler
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, passive infinitive of sala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In map-pro, forest, wilderness, woods
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Esperanto, present of sali
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)
- José Mariano Salasb. 1797MXPresident of Mexico (1797-1867)
- José Eustacio Riverab. 1888COnot in their usual nameColombian writer, politician and diplomat (1888–1928)
- Marcelo Salasb. 1974CLChilean footballer
- Ilse Salasb. 1981MXMexican actress
- Marina Salasb. 1988ESCatalan actress
- Kenti Roblesb. 1991MXnot in their usual nameAssociation footballer
- Claudia Salasb. 1994ESFrench actreice
- Youstin Salasb. 1996CRCosta Rican footballer
- Daniel Chacónb. 2001CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Kike Salassb. 2002ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
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 51 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 65K | #513 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 63K | #522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 48K | #643 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 45K | #41 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 41K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru 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 surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Salas mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person living by sallows; (ii) from the religious name Sales/Francis de Sales; (iii) person from Sales, Portugal Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Salas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Salas in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salas.
- Where is Salas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salas is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 113 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 65,468 people named Salas in 2010, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Salas compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Salas is the 76th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salasThe 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, “Salas” — the 76th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.