Salud
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Latin salus ‘health, salvation’: mystical name meaning ‘salvation’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salud/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salud is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- ESSpain
- PHPhilippines
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin salus ‘health, salvation’: mystical name meaning ‘salvation’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Salud is read(measured from records)
Salud is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish81%
Latin salus ‘health, salvation’: mystical name meaning ‘salvation’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
health
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
A barangay of Bolinao, Pangasinan, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Salud 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.
Spanish: religious name referring to the Marian title, Nuestra Señora de la Salud ‘Our Lady of Salvation’ (from Latin salus , genitive sal tis ). The Virgin is venerated under this name in several places, especially in Catalonia and Valencia.
as a word
In ban, scoop up water with a vessel, draw water
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, vessel used to catch falling liquids
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Salud Carbajalb. 1964USAmerican politician
- Riall Johnsonb. 1978CAnot in their usual nameplayer of American and Canadian football
- Salud LlamazaresESresearcher
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 29 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 580 | #40,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 455 | #46,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 370 | #52,608 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 240 | #14,393 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 240 | #14,359 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 93 | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 14 | #5,154 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #74,461 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #381,724 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Salud mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin salus ‘health, salvation’: mystical name meaning ‘salvation’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Salud?
- A machine transcription gives /salud/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Salud a male or female name?
- Salud is a female 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.
- In which country does Salud have the most bearers?
- Salud is most frequently recorded in Mexico.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saludThe 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, “Salud”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.