Sälzer
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Sälzer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 216K
- ATAustria≈1 in 14K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Salzer in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 5 more.
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.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sälzer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Salzer | 92 |
| US United States | — | 1,543 | 1 in 216K | 1.6K | Salzer | 224 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Salzer | 58 |
| BR Brazil | — | 171 | 1 in 1.2M | 171 | Salzer | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 386K | 31 | Salzer | 40 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 46 | 1 in 183K | 46 | Salzer | 20 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Salzer | 1 |
| BB Barbados | #407 | — | — | — | Salzer | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)- Bernhard Sälzerb. 1940DEGerman politician (1940-1993)
- Bruno Sälzerb. 1957DEGerman fashion manager; CEO of Escada
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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
- In which country does Sälzer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Sälzer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salzer.
- How common is the name Sälzer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,543 people named Sälzer in 2010, about 1 in 216 thousand residents.
- How common is Sälzer compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Sälzer is the 407th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sälzer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A4lzerThe 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, “Sälzer” — the 407th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.