Salmi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A rich stew or ragout, especially of game
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salmi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Algeria it is the 97th most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 320(measured from records)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 3.1K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 3.7K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 320 (inferred from the name graph)
17,413 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
strait, sound (narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Salmi is read(measured from records)
Salmi is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salmi in French.
- English18%
A rich stew or ragout, especially of game.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salmi in Arabic.
- Spanish8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salmi in Spanish.
- Finnish7.1%
strait, sound (narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salmi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #155 | 17,413 | 1 in 320 | 17K | Salmi | 91 |
| DZ Algeria | #97 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | listed | Salmi | 38 |
| MA Morocco | #99 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Salmi | 57 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 332 | — | 2 |
| OM Oman | #134 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Salmi | 47 |
| TN Tunisia | #850 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Salmi | 16 |
17,413 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the dz-kaggle-names register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Salmi 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 urj-fin-pro, narrow passage of water, strait, narrows
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, port, harbour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, bay, inlet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, straw
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)
- Mario Salmib. 1889ITItalian art historian and art critic (1889–1980)
- Kerttu Salmib. 1901FIFinnish actress
- Sulo Salmib. 1914FIOlympic gymnast (1914–1984)
- Albert Salmib. 1928USAmerican actor (1928–1990)
- Jorma Salmib. 1933FIFinnish ice hockey player (1933-2016)
- Marja-Leena Mikkolab. 1939FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer and poet
- Risto Salmib. 1941FIFinnish actor
- Vexi Salmib. 1942FIFinnish lyricist and record producer (1942–2020)
- Samuel Salmib. 1951FIFinnish priest
- Vroni König-Salmib. 1969NZSwiss orienteer
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 17K | #64 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 7.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 332 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 297 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 294 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 193 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 61 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Salmi come from?
- strait, sound (narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Salmi?
- A machine transcription gives /salmi/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Salmi mean?
- In English, A rich stew or ragout, especially of game.
- In which country does Salmi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Salmi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salmi.
- Where is Salmi most common?
- Salmi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 320 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Salmi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 17,413 people named Salmi, about 1 in 320 residents.
- How common is Salmi compared with other names?
- In Finland, Salmi is the 155th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Salmi?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salmiThe 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, “Salmi” — the 155th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.