Salvesen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/sɑlʋɛsn̩/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Salvesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 3,020 people, counted by SSB. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Salvesen, from Salve + -sen.
- NONorway1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 42K
- FIFinland1 in 124K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,020 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Salvesen
- Norwegian:/sɑlʋɛsn̩/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- NorwegianSalvesen(measured from records)
- Salve+(measured from records)
Borrowed from Norwegian Salvesen, from Salve + -sen.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Salvesen is found
(measured from records)Salvesen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #324 | 3,020 | 1 in 1.8K | 3K | Salvesen | 67 |
| US United States | — | 643 | 1 in 517K | 643 | Salvesen | 108 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 443K | 85 | Salvesen | 34 |
| DK Denmark | — | 141 | 1 in 42K | 141 | Salvesen | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 653K | — | Salvesen | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 45 | 1 in 124K | 45 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Salvesen | 3 |
3,020 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jens Salvesenb. 1883NOsailor (1883-1976)
- Anton Salvesenb. 1927NOluger
- Lars-Jørgen Salvesenb. 1996NONorwegian 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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Salvesen mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Norwegian Salvesen, from Salve + -sen. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Salvesen?
- In Norwegian /sɑlʋɛsn̩/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Salvesen?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Salvesen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvesen. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Denmark and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Salvesen most common?
- Salvesen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Salvesen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 3,020 people named Salvesen, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Salvesen compared with other names?
- In Norway, Salvesen is the 324th most common surname of 90,139 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/salvesenThe 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, “Salvesen” — ranked 286th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.