Salii
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Salii is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: drawn (sword), scion, son. Salii is also written Салий in Cyrillic.
- PWPalau≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 43K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 69K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Salii itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 named Салий, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Palau, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Salii in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Салий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)drawn (sword), scion, son
Cited for this meaning 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Salii is found
(measured from records)Salii 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Салий | 117 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Salii | 34 |
| PL Poland | 372 | 1 in 103K | 208 | Salii | 6 |
| MK North Macedonia | 309as Салии | 1 in 6.9K | 309 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 78 | Салий | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | 121 | 1 in 69K | 121 | — | — |
| PW Palau | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 334 | — | — |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; This page discusses Palauan surnames, highlighting their cultural significance and frequency, published by the National; State Statistical Office — living population names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)Salii is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The 12 priests of Mars Gradivus in Ancient Rome.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, first-person singular past historic of salire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, Salii, the priests of Mars Gradivus in Rome
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, drawn (sword), scion, son
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)- Lazarus Saliib. 1936PWPresident of Palau (1936-1988)
- Gloria Saliib. 1950PWBilung of Koror
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Salii mean, and where does it come from?
- drawn (sword), scion, son Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Salii?
- In the etymology graph, Salian is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Salii?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Салий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Poland, North Macedonia and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Salii?
- In Poland, the national register counted 372 people named Salii in 2026, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Salii?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saliiThe 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, “Salii”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.