Salgar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Salgar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Salgar (a town, a municipality of Antioquia department, Colombia).
- COColombia≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 195K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 237K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Salgar (a town, a municipality of Antioquia department, Colombia)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salgar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Salgar | 55 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Salgar | 8 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Salgar | 11 |
| US United States | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Salgar | 61 |
| BR Brazil | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Salgar | 9 |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | Salgar | 15 |
| CL Chile | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Salgar | 7 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Salgar | 6 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Salgar 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 Portuguese, to salt (to add salt to)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, to preserve in salt
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)
- Eustorgio Salgarb. 1831COPresident of Colombia (1831-1885)
- Consuelo Salgarb. 1928COColombian politician
- Faruk Salgarb. 1962TRTurkish choir director (1962–2023)
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #78,304 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Salgar mean, and where does it come from?
- Salgar (a town, a municipality of Antioquia department, Colombia) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Salgar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 951 people named Salgar in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salgar.
- How common is the name Salgar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 22 people named Salgar, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salgarThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Salgar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.