Salic

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Synonym of Salian, particularly in reference to the Salic law

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries

/salik/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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

  • HRCroatia1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 82K
  • SESweden1 in 227K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 people, est.

Record sources
89 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Synonym of Salian, particularly in reference to the Salic law.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Salic 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 Salic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,400 est.≈1 in 82K—Salic30
HR Croatia7311 in 5.8K731——
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈320 est.≈1 in 9.9K—Salic4
US United States1871 in 1.8M209Salic89
FR France≈170 est.≈1 in 409K27—2
AT Austria≈51 est.≈1 in 180K—Salic14
SE Sweden451 in 227K45Salic4

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

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

  • Croatian surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

    Also written Šalić, Salić, Салић, Šalič, Šalic

  • Spanish surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Guatemala, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Salíc, Salić, Sälïc, Şaliç, Šalić

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, United States

    Also written Šalić

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Saliç, Salić, Šalić

  • Turkish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Philippines, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Saliç, Šalić, Şaliç, Salić

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Saudi Arabia, United States

    Also written Saliç, Šalić

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Salić, Saliç, Šalić

29 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Salic is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, pert, to Salian Franks

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Romanian, Salic, Salian

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, SÁLICĂ adj. (În sintagma) Legea salică = culegere medievală de norme de drept bazate pe obiceiul pământului, aparținând francilor de pe teritoriul Galiei.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Salic,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Salic mean, and where does it come from?
Synonym of Salian, particularly in reference to the Salic law. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Salic?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /salik/; in Indonesian /salit͡ʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Salic have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Salic in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salic.
Where is Salic most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Salic is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 5.8 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Salic?
In Croatia, the national register counted 731 people named Salic in 2021, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.

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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, “Salic”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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