Salg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname; bearer count 172
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.9M(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 198K
- KEKenya≈1 in 360K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 198K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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)
Toponymic surname; bearer count 172. Variant cluster: Salg, Salch; linked to mhd. salhe and toponymic origin.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salg 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 198K | listed | Salg | 51 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 698K | — | Salg | 1 |
| US United States | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 109 | Salg | 93 |
| KE Kenya | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 360K | — | Salg | 1 |
| ES Spain | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Salg | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Salg | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 2 |
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 2000; the dfa-band-4 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Salg is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymischer Familienname zu mhd. salhe 'Salweide'; aus einem Wohnplatz- oder Flurnamen. Belegt mit 172 Trägern.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In Norwegian Bokmål, sale (act of selling)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 109 | #140,756 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Salg come from?
- Toponymic surname; bearer count 172. Variant cluster: Salg, Salch; linked to mhd. salhe and toponymic origin. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- What does the name Salg mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname; bearer count 172.
- In which country does Salg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 404 people named Salg in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salg.
- How common is the name Salg?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6 people named Salg in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Salg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salgThe 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, “Salg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.