Salmani
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sælmeɪni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salmani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 723K(measured from records)
- IQIraq≈1 in 86K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 136K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
1,835 people
Highest-authority source
Iraq, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salmani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,835 | 1 in 723K | 1.8K | Salmani | 68 |
| IR Iran | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Salmani | 13 |
| IQ Iraq | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Salmani | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Salmani | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Salmani | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 62 | 1 in 136K | 62 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | — | 3 |
1,835 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Salmani 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 Latin, An Arabian tribe mentioned by Pliny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Balvu novada Balvu pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Salmaņi" nosaukums latgaliski
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.8K | #3,355 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 804 | #857 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 62 | #15,845 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 30 | #18,571 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- How do you pronounce Salmani?
- A machine transcription gives /sælmeɪni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Salmani have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Salmani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salmani.
- How common is the name Salmani?
- In India, the national register counted 1,835 people named Salmani, about 1 in 723 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salmaniThe 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, “Salmani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.