Saloma
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shanty, work song
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/saloma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saloma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 32K
- MGMadagascar≈1 in 61K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
shanty, work song
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saloma 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Saloma | 21 |
| MG Madagascar | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 1 | — | — |
| BO Bolivia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Saloma | 11 |
| PE Peru | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Saloma | 25 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 603 | Saloma | 45 |
| FI Finland | 42 | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Saloma 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 French, Variante de Salomé, du hébreu *shalom* « paix ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Cebuano, a sea shanty; a work song that sailors sang in rhythm to their movement
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)
- Caesar Salomab. 1960PHFilipino physicist
- Czarina Salomab. 1970PHFilipino sociologist
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 131 | #133,930 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 42 | #26,725 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 22 | — |
| MG Madagascar | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #297 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Saloma mean, and where does it come from?
- shanty, work song Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Saloma?
- A machine transcription gives /saloma/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Saloma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Saloma in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saloma.
- How common is the name Saloma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154 people named Saloma in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salomaThe 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, “Saloma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.