Salkin

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Salkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: probably from Sale-kin, 'little Salaman'; first attested Salkyn Eldefeld 1327.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 770K(measured from records)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 118K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 577K

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.

United States (measured from records)

432 people, 2010

Sources
197 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)

Guatemala, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

probably from Sale-kin, 'little Salaman'; first attested Salkyn Eldefeld 1327

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world(measured from records)

Salkin 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.

Where Salkin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4321 in 770K432Salkin197
IN India≈190 est.≈1 in 6.9M2Salkin5
GT Guatemala≈150 est.≈1 in 118K—Salkin2
IT Italy≈100 est.≈1 in 625K—Salkin4
GB United Kingdom≈90 est.≈1 in 733K35Salkin33
AU Australia≈44 est.≈1 in 577K—Salkin21
BE Belgium161 in 733K16Salkin4

432 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Salkin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Салкин, Салькин, Салкін, Салькін

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • Bulgarian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria

    Also written Салкин, Şalkin

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Salkin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, relationship name from a pet form (with the Middle English diminutive suffix -kin) of a personal name, possibly Saul , but more probably Salomon (see Salamon ).

    as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

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)

1850190019502000Fernand Salkin, b. 1862Leo Salkin, b. 1913Patricia Salkin, b. 2000

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 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Salkin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010432#48,800
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000432#46,426
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020411#54,177
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200235#63,515
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200816#54,366
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Salkin mean, and where does it come from?
probably from Sale-kin, 'little Salaman'; first attested Salkyn Eldefeld 1327 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Salkin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 432 people named Salkin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salkin.
How common is the name Salkin?
In the United States, the national register counted 432 people named Salkin in 2010, about 1 in 770 thousand residents.

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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, “Salkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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