The Salvaggio surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,547 people carried this name — #18,036 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 192,300 people counted. That is down 7% from 1,663 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Salvaggio surname
Italianized after Sicilian Sarbaggiu.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Salvaggio» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 184 people named Salvaggio 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 Liège.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 161 people named Salvaggio 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 61 people named Salvaggio.
Most of them — 49 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 6 départements, most often Moselle.
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
24 people named Salvaggio live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Salvaggio.
- Saltzmann 131 · U.S. census
- Salva 1,474 · U.S. census
- Salvado 159 · U.S. census
- Salvador 13,021 · U.S. census
- Salvadori 253 · U.S. census
- Salvage 421 · U.S. census
- Salvant 406 · U.S. census
- Salvat 214 · U.S. census
- Salvati 1,085 · U.S. census
- Salvatore 5,680 · U.S. census
- Salvatori 289 · U.S. census
- Salvetti 444 · U.S. census
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