Salomon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Jewish, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, and Spanish forms of Solomon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salomon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salomon is a 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)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 925as Solomon
- GHGhana≈1 in 1.7Kas Solomon
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 522 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Solomon, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #84 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 925 | — | Solomon | 133 |
| US United States | #566 | 46,534as Solomon | 1 in 7.1K | 47K | Solomon | 522 |
| PH Philippines | #215 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Solomon | 99 |
| ZA South Africa | #326 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Solomon | 110 |
| GH Ghana | #95 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Solomon | 95 |
| AR Argentina | — | 9,698 | 1 in 4.7K | 9.7K | Salomon | 87 |
| GY Guyana | — | 824as Solomon | 1 in 910 | 824 | — | 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.
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)
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)
- Solomonb. 1053King of Hungary (1053-1087)
- Salomon Maimonb. 1754BYLithuanian Jewish philosopher (1753–1800)
- Salomon Müllerb. 1804DEGerman naturalist (1804-1863)
- Salomon Jadassohnb. 1831DEGerman composer (1831–1902)
- Mendele Mocher Sforimb. 1835BYnot in their usual nameYiddish-Hebrew writer (1836-1917)
- Arvid Lindmanb. 1862SEnot in their usual nameSwedish 20th century prime minister (1862-1936)
- André Mauroisb. 1885FRnot in their usual nameFrench author (1885–1967)
- Fritz Perlsb. 1893USnot in their usual nameGerman-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist (1893-1970)
- Salomon Bochnerb. 1899USAmerican mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry (1899–1982)
- 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)
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)
Attested in 96 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 9.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.8K | #4,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.7K | #5,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.3K | #5,929 |
Reference works 11
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 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 in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Salomon?
- A machine transcription gives /salomon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- 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.
- In which country does Salomon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 thousand people named Solomon in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salomonThe 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, “Salomon” — the 84th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.