Salomo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: Solomon (Biblical figure)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/salomo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Salomo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- NANamibia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 173K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
289 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Hebrew shəlōmōh 'peaceful, man of peace'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Salomo is read
(measured from records)Salomo is one spelling over 6 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.
- Finnish59%
Solomon (Biblical figure)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salomo in Spanish.
- German19%
from Hebrew shəlōmōh 'peaceful, man of peace'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salomo in English.
- Indonesian12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salomo in Indonesian.
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salomo in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Salomo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 289 | 1 in 173K | 289 | — | — |
| NA Namibia | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 4 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | listed | — | 7 |
| FR France | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | Salomo | 2 |
289 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Salomo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, from Hebrew šəlōmōh, related to šālôm 'peace'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Dutch, Solomon (Biblical figure, historical king of Israel and Judah)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, Solomon (king of Israel)
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)- Søren Salomob. 1967DEeconomist
- Michael Salomob. 1988DEGerman politician
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 289 | #12,402 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 289 | #12,384 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #164,002 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #56,017 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Salomo come from?
- from Hebrew shəlōmōh 'peaceful, man of peace' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Salomo mean?
- In Finnish, Solomon (Biblical figure)
- What are other forms of the name Salomo?
- In the etymology graph, Solomon, Saleem and Sulaiman are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Salomo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /salomo/; in German /ˈzaːlomoː/ (Wiktionary); in Indonesian /salˈomo/; in Portuguese /zɐlumu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Salomo have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 289 people named Salomo, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Salomo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 289 people named Salomo, about 1 in 173 thousand 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/salomoThe 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, “Salomo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.