Salton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Salton (North Riding of Yorkshire, East Lothian); first attested Matilda de Saleton 1219 AssY
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/saltɔn/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Salton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 189K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K
- USUnited States1 in 723K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 189K (inferred from the name graph)
1,122 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Salton (North Riding of Yorkshire, East Lothian); first attested Matilda de Saleton 1219 AssY
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world
(measured from records)Salton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,122 | 1 in 189K | 1.1K | Salton | 64 |
| US United States | 460 | 1 in 723K | 460 | Salton | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
1,122 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)Salton 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 Italian, de Salto com desinência truncada -on; ligado a bosque/guarda de bosques.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Esperanto, accusative singular of salto
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)- Alexander Saltonb. 1869AUAustralian rules footballer and umpire
- Gerard Saltonb. 1927USGerman-born American computer scientist (1927-1995)
- Zvi Saltonb. 1947ILIsraeli dub actor
- Darren Saltonb. 1972GBScottish footballer (born 1972)
- Marcus SaltonAUresearcher
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 460 | #46,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 439 | #51,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 433 | #46,331 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #236,698 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #129,342 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #20,831 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Salton mean, and where does it come from?
- from Salton (North Riding of Yorkshire, East Lothian); first attested Matilda de Saleton 1219 AssY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Salton?
- In Portuguese /saltɔn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Salton have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Salton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salton.
- Where is Salton most common?
- Salton is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 189 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Salton?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,122 people named Salton, about 1 in 189 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/saltonThe 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, “Salton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.