Salgado

43,867 people in the United States were counted with the surname Salgado in the 2020 census, making it the 771st most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,814.

By the numbers

People: 43,867
Rank: 771st
How common: 1 in 6,814
Per 100,000: 14.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Galician

From Spanish Salgado, from Galician Salgado.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Salgado described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 93.0%
White, not Hispanic 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Salgado

Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025)Brazilian photographer
Míchel Salgado (born 1975)Spanish footballer
Elena Salgado (born 1949)Spanish politician
Horacio López Salgado (born 1948)Mexican footballer
Plínio Salgado (1895–1975)Brazilian politician
Isabel Salgado (1960–2022)Brazilian volleyball player

People named Salgado with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Salgado

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.