Szalma
surname · Latin script
Meaning: straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃɑɫmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szalma is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- HUHungary
- ARArgentina
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- István Szalmab. 1886HUHungarian printer and political activist (1886-1919)
- Teréz Szalmab. 1890HU(1890–?) actress
- Ferenc Szalmab. 1923HUHungarian singer (1923–2001)
- László Szalmab. 1957HUHungarian athletics competitor
- Tamás Szalmab. 1958HUHungarian actor
- József Szalmab. 1966HUfootball player
- József Szalmab. 1978HUHungarian dentist and university teacher (b 1978)
- Pál Szalmab. 1982HUHungarian footballer
- Sandor Szalmaresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 24 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #184,442 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Szalma mean, and where does it come from?
- straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Szalma?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɑɫmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Szalma have the most bearers?
- Szalma is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szalmaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Szalma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.