Salomaa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: deep forest, wilderness
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsɑlomɑɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salomaa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 131K
- NONorway1 in 456K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
4,899 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
deep forest, wilderness
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salomaa 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.
4,899 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tyyne Salomaab. 1891FIFinnish politician
- Hiski Salomaab. 1891USFinnish-American singer and songwriter (1891–1959)
- Pauli Salomaab. 1907FIFinnish architect
- Kauko Salomaab. 1928FIFinnish speed skater (1928–2016)
- Arto Salomaab. 1934FIFinnish mathematician and computer scientist; academian of science (Academy of Finland), professor emeritus of mathematics (University of Turku)
- Markku Salomaab. 1954FIFinnish historian and journalist
- Risto Salomaab. 1961FIFinnish film producer
- Sonya Salomaab. 1974CAactress
- Sami-Ville Salomaab. 1977FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Rosa Salomaab. 1994FIFinnish film actress
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.9K | #378 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 78 | #8,782 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #53,210 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #212,184 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Salomaa mean, and where does it come from?
- deep forest, wilderness Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Salomaa?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑlomɑɑ/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- What are other forms of the name Salomaa?
- In the etymology graph, Salo and Salonen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Salomaa have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Salomaa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salomaa.
- Where is Salomaa most common?
- Salomaa is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Salomaa?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,899 people named Salomaa, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salomaaThe 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, “Salomaa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.