Salvesen

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Salvesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Salvesen, from Salve + -sen.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 517K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 1.8K
  • DKDenmark1 in 42K

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)

3,020 people

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Salvesen: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Salvesen
  1. NorwegianSalvesen(measured from records)
  2. Salve+(measured from records)

Borrowed from Norwegian Salvesen, from Salve + -sen.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Salvesen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#3243,0201 in 1.8K3KSalvesen67
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈730 est.≈1 in 139K—Salvesen1
US United States—6431 in 517K643Salvesen108
GH Ghana—≈170 est.≈1 in 175K—Salvesen4
GB United Kingdom—≈150 est.≈1 in 427K85Salvesen34
DK Denmark—1411 in 42K141Salvesen26
FI Finland—451 in 124K45—1
NZ New Zealand—≈29 est.≈1 in 172K—Salvesen3

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Salvesen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Norway

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Сальвесен

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Edward Theodore Salvesen, b. 1857Jens Salvesen, b. 1883Harald Salvesen, b. 1889Sylvia Salvesen, b. 1890Salve Andreas Salvesen, b. 1909Anton Salvesen, b. 1927Helge Salvesen, b. 1947Sylvia Salvesen, b. 1947Kjartan Salvesen, b. 1976Lars-Jørgen Salvesen, b. 1996

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Salvesen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3K#286
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20201.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20191.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20181.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20211.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20221.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20231.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20251.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20241.5K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010643#35,057
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020636#37,603
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000627#34,210

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 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.
In which country does Salvesen have the most bearers?
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.
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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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” — the 324th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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