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The SALOMON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,345 5929 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 451 10504 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +4894 +4575 +0.001 +11
Other Countries
Australia 140 10516 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SALOMON

Language of origin: Ladino

Ethnic origin: Sephardic

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SALOMON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SALOMON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SALOMON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 748 13.99
Asian/Pacific 181 3.39
Mixed Race 136 2.54
Native American/Alaskan 15 0.28
White (Caucasian) 2,388 44.68
White (Hispanic) 1,877 35.12

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SALOMON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SALOMON in historical publications

SALOMON. This name, though identical with the designation of a well-known fish, probably originated from another source. The manor of Salmons in Caterham, co. Surrey, is known to liave belonged temp. Edw. III. to Roger Saleman. Brayley's Surrey, iv. 189. Now scl, A-Sax. and sa'Ue, Fr. signify a hall, and micman would consequently be the attendant or keeper of a hall. The name under this orthography is common in the Hvmdred Rolls.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SALOMON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SALOMON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SALOMON

The following words are slight variants of SALOMON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.