Salga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a kind of levy on salt in the Kingdom of Aragon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səlɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 396K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 587K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 396K (inferred from the name graph)
27 people
Reference-verified
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Šalga in SK Slovakia.
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)
a kind of levy on salt in the Kingdom of Aragon
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salga 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.
27 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)
Salga 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 xgn-pro, stretcher, litter
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Portuguese, salting (act of curing food with salt, or adding salt to something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of salk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite plural of salg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, inflection of salire:
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 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 27 | #44,335 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Salga mean, and where does it come from?
- a kind of levy on salt in the Kingdom of Aragon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Salga?
- In the etymology graph, Salgado is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Salga?
- A machine transcription gives /səlɡə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Salga have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 27 people named Salga, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Salga most common?
- Salga is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 396 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Salga?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 27 people named Salga, about 1 in 396 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salgaThe 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, “Salga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.