The Sall surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,496 people carried this name — #18,478 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 196,100 people counted. That is up 22% from 1,231 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 365 people named Sall live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 245 people named Sall.
Most of them — 186 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Paris.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
80 people named Sall live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 the Nordic population registers
1,244 people named Sall are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Sall in American newspapers,
1914–1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 257,915 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Sall,
with a public archive behind them.
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Demba War Sall 1850–1902 -
Abbas Sall 1909–1990 · writer -
John Sall 1948– · businessperson -
Elhadj Abdoul Hamidou Sall 1950– · writer -
Amadou Lamine Sall 1951– · poet
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 46 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sall.
- Salin 414 · U.S. census
- Salina 613 · U.S. census
- Salinas 81,156 · U.S. census
- Saline 454 · U.S. census
- Saling 1,783 · U.S. census
- Salis 457 · U.S. census
- Salla 298 · U.S. census
- Sallard 157 · U.S. census
- Sallaz 231 · U.S. census
- Salle 494 · U.S. census
- Sallee 6,929 · U.S. census
- Salles 601 · U.S. census
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