The Salom surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 363 people carried this name — #56,310 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 833,300 people counted. That is up 12% from 325 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 368 people named Salom 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 188 people named Salom.
65 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Essonne.
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
21 people named Salom live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Valais.
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
21 people named Salom 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).
Who carried it
People named Salom,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bartolomé Salom 1780–1863 · military personnel -
Maurice Salom 1831–1903 · politician -
Maurice Salom 1831–1903 · politician
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Joan Leake Salom (née Hall) 1919–1993 -
Louise Gordon-Stables 1875–1961 · journalist
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Pere Salom i Morera 1883–1950 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Salom.
- Sallier 125 · U.S. census
- Sallin 103 · U.S. census
- Salm 1,076 · U.S. census
- Salmeron 7,191 · U.S. census
- Salmi 950 · U.S. census
- Salmon 14,511 · U.S. census
- Salome 926 · U.S. census
- Salomon 6,745 · U.S. census
- Salomone 819 · U.S. census
- Salon 279 · U.S. census
- Salotti 215 · U.S. census
- Salse 111 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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