Salvia
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: sage
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈsal.β̞ja/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Salvia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 12K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 14Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Roman family name Salvius, from salvus 'safe'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Salvia is read
(measured from records)Salvia is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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%
sage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English32%
A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Latin, 'sage'
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- Portuguese6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Salvia in Portuguese.
- Italian6.0%
de nome cristão latino Salvia; sobrenome matronímico, ‘filha de Salvia’
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Salvia is found
(measured from records)Salvia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Salvia | 44 |
| AR Argentina | 789 | 1 in 58K | 789 | Salvia | 50 |
| BR Brazil | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 284K | 230 | Salvia | 60 |
| US United States | 676 | 1 in 492K | 696 | Salvia | 110 |
| PH Philippines | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Salvia | 13 |
| ES Spain | 596 | 1 in 84K | 596 | Salvia | 74 |
| UY Uruguay | 272 | 1 in 12K | 272 | Salvia | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | — | 6 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Salvia 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 Latin, from the Roman family name Salvius, from salvus 'safe'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, weibl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs (lat. salvus, -a, -um »wohlbehalten, unver sehrt«) , der in frühchristlicher Zeit als »erlöst in Gott« aufgefässt wurde.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Rafael J. Salviab. 1915ESScreenwriter, Film director
- Julien Salviab. 1983FRcomposer and musical performer, based in Paris, France
- Rodrigo Saraviab. 2000UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan 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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Salvia come from?
- from the Roman family name Salvius, from salvus 'safe' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Salvia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈsal.β̞ja/ (Wiktionary); in English /ˈsælviə/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /salbiɐ/; in Italian /ˈsal.vja/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Salvia mean?
- In Spanish, sage
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Salvia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Salvia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvia. After it come Argentina, Brazil, United States and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Salvia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salvia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Salvia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 789 people named Salvia, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salviaThe 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, “Salvia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.