Salomon

given name · Latin script

Meaning: From Jewish, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, and Spanish forms of Solomon

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 46 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/salomon/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Salomon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common surname.

  • ARArgentina1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 7K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 9.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Salomon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈250,000 named Solomon, est.

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
522 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
SolomonLatin(measured from records)
სოლომონGeorgian(measured from records)
โซโลมอนThai(measured from records)
솔로몬Hangul(measured from records)
ΣολομωνGreek(measured from records)

Locally spelled Solomon in US United States, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Jewish, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, and Spanish forms of Solomon.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Salomon is found

(measured from records)

Salomon 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.

Where Salomon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#84≈250,000 est.≈1 in 935—Solomon133
US United States#56646,534as Solomon1 in 7.1K47KSolomon522
PH Philippines#215≈35,000 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Solomon99
ZA South Africa#326≈21,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Solomon110
GH Ghana#95≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Solomon95
AR Argentina—9,6981 in 4.7K9.7KSalomon87
GY Guyana—824as Solomon1 in 910824—7

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 — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Salomon is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, India, Peru

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Salomón, Šalomon

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Sälomon, Śalomon, Śâlômôn, Salómon, Salomón

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Salomón

  • Hebrew given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Israel, Romania, United States

    Also written סאלומון, סולומונ, Salômôn, Salomón, Śalomon

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Salomón

78 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Salomon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Name of Hebraic origin, and the biblical son of David. It is probably a name existing in the area of Rastatt, Baden 1814. In Wangen too, in Marbach and in the area of Constance.

    as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

  • In French, du nom hébreu Shĕlomṓh, dérivé de shālṓm « paix »

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • In Italian, redução dialetal setentrional de Salomone.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, Du hébreu *Shelomoh* lié à *shalom* « paix »; roi biblique.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, De l’hébreu Shelomoh, lié à shālōm « paix ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)
100012001400160018002000Solomon, b. 1053André Maurois, b. 1885Salomon Kalou, b. 1985
  • Solomonb. 1053King of Hungary (1053-1087)
  • André Mauroisb. 1885FRnot in their usual nameFrench author (1885–1967)
  • Salomon Kaloub. 1985CIIvorian association football player

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)
InformalHola Salomon,Hi Salomon, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

96 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 46 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Salomon mean, and where does it come from?
From Jewish, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, and Spanish forms of Solomon. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Salomon a male or female name?
Salomon is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Finland (DVV), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and France (INSEE, 2024), among others.
What are other forms of the name Salomon?
In the etymology graph, Süleyman, Salim and Selim are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Salomon?
In Spanish /salomon/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Salomon?
Mondonomo estimates about 249 thousand people named Solomon in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Philippines, South Africa and Ghana; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Salomon most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salomon is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 4.7 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Salomon?
In Argentina, the national register counted 9,698 people named Salomon, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
How common is Salomon compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Salomon is the 84th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Salomon” — the 84th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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