The Salgado surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 45,469 people carried this name — #759 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 6,490 people counted. That is up 44% from 31,627 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Salgado surname
From Spanish Salgado, from Galician Salgado.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Salgado» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 10,926 people named Salgado live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
438 people named Salgado live in Switzerland.
They live in 18 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 185 people named Salgado.
Most of them — 114 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 38 départements, most often Pyrénées-Orientales.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
24 people named Salgado is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Salgado in American newspapers,
1905–1943.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 9,994 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Salgado,
with a public archive behind them.
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Francisco Salgado de Somoza 1595–1665 · jurist
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João da Cruz Salgado de Castilho 1695–1756 · Catholic priest -
Laureano Salgado Rodríguez 1847–1930 · businessperson -
Antonio Salgado López 1858–1927 · lawyer -
Francisco Salgado y López de Quiroga 1859–1940 · judge
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 186 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Salgado.
- Salen 299 · U.S. census
- Salerno 9,440 · U.S. census
- Salery 102 · U.S. census
- Sales 10,439 · U.S. census
- Salet 100 · U.S. census
- Saley 301 · U.S. census
- Salha 205 · U.S. census
- Sali 329 · U.S. census
- Saliba 2,245 · U.S. census
- Salic 187 · U.S. census
- Salice 117 · U.S. census
- Salih 1,339 · U.S. census
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