Salete
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salɛtʃi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salete is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably from French placename Notre-Dame de la Salette.
- BRBrazil1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 13K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 89K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
41,643 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably from French placename Notre-Dame de la Salette.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salete 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #376 | 41,643 | 1 in 5.1K | 48K | Salete | 110 |
| PT Portugal | #882 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Salete | 28 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Salete | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Salete | 48 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Salete | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Salete | 10 |
41,643 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 48K | #807 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 48K | #305 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 42K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 42K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41K | #647 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 41K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 40K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 39K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 36K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 26K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 16K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 11K | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Salete mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from French placename Notre-Dame de la Salette. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Salete?
- A machine transcription gives /salɛtʃi/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Salete a male or female name?
- Salete is a female 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 Salete have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Salete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salete.
- Where is Salete most common?
- Salete is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Salete?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 41,643 people named Salete in 2022, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Salete compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Salete is the 376th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Salete?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saleteThe 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, “Salete” — the 376th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.