Salvado
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bran
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salbado/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salvado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 19K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
2,700 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
past participle of salvar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Salvado is read(measured from records)
Salvado is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish42%
bran
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salvado in English.
- Portuguese17%
past participle of salvar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salvado in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Salvado 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 | — | 2,700 | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Salvado | 98 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Salvado | 32 |
| PT Portugal | #391 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Salvado | 74 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 420K | 164 | Salvado | 47 |
| FR France | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 149K | 63 | Salvado | 2 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Salvado | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 30 | 1 in 113K | 30 | Salvado | 4 |
2,700 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Salvado is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In io, rescue
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)
- Rosendo Salvadob. 1814ESCatholic bishop (1814–1900)
- Alex Salvadob. 1890AUAustralian rules footballer
- Arnaldo Salvadob. 1959MZMozambican association football manager
- João António Salvadob. 1964PTPortuguese historian
- Davide Salvadob. 1981ESGalician Traditional music and World music singer from Galicia, Spain
- Carla Sospedrab. 1982ESnot in their usual nameCatalan film producer
- Rita SalvadoPTresearcher
- Debora Salvadoresearcher
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.7K | #1,890 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.7K | #1,890 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 758 | #11,779 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 34 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 12 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Salvado come from?
- past participle of salvar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Salvado?
- In the etymology graph, Salvo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Salvado?
- A machine transcription gives /salbado/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Salvado mean?
- In Spanish, bran
- In which country does Salvado have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Salvado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvado.
- How common is the name Salvado?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,700 people named Salvado, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Salvado compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Salvado is the 391st most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Salvado?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salvadoThe 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, “Salvado” — the 391st most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.