Salaun

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Salaun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.2M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,800 people, est.

Sources
261 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Salaun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Salaun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#566≈6,800 est.≈1 in 10K1KSalaun261
US United States—1581 in 2.1M158Salaun52
GB United Kingdom—≈38 est.≈1 in 1.7M47Salaun20
CA Canada—≈23 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Salaun8
ES Spain—121 in 4.2M12Salaun5
BE Belgium—101 in 1.2M10Salaun7
CH Switzerland—81 in 1.1M8Salaun4

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Salaun is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, France

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Salaün, Salauen

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Salaün

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Salaün

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Salaün

  • Arabic name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Salaün

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Salaün

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Salaün

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18801900192019401960Isidoro Dubournais, b. 1893Henri Salaün, b. 1926Michel Salaun, b. 1960

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Salaun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19511.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19611.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19211.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19411.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19711.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19811.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19311.1K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19911K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901958—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911871—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1891511—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010158#111,426

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Salaun have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Salaun in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salaun.
How common is the name Salaun?
In the United States, the national register counted 158 people named Salaun in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
How common is Salaun compared with other names?
In France, Salaun is the 566th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Salaun” — the 566th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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