Shalash
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃelæʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shalash is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 5.1Kas Salas(measured from records)
- JOJordan≈1 in 15K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 113as Salas
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shalash itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
65,468 named Salas, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Salas in ES Spain, EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shalash 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 65,468as Salas | 1 in 5.1K | 65K | Shalash | 88 |
| CR Costa Rica | 45,207as Salas | 1 in 113 | 45K | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 41,411as Salas | 1 in 1.1K | 41K | Shalash | 3 |
| ES Spain | 31,523as Salas | 1 in 1.6K | 32K | Salas | 17 |
| EC Ecuador | 13,920as Salas | 1 in 1.2K | 14K | Salas | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 1,550as Salas | 1 in 2.2K | 1.6K | — | — |
| JO Jordan | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Shalash | 18 |
65,468 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling salas. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 497 | #46,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 356 | #57,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 234 | #76,465 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #24,794 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Shalash?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃelæʃ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Shalash have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 65 thousand people named Salas, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shalash?
- In the United States, the national register counted 65,468 people named Salas in 2010, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shalash?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shalashThe 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, “Shalash”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.