Salo

Salo is the 11,290th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,674 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 112,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,674
Rank: 11,290th
How common: 1 in 112,000
Per 100,000: 0.89

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Salo

Mika Salo (born 1966)Finnish racing driver
Sami Salo (born 1974)ice hockey player
Tommy Salo (born 1971)ice hockey player
Elina Salo (1936–2025)Finnish actress
Gasparo da Salò (1540–1609)Italian luthier
Ola Salo (born 1977)Swedish musician
Teemu Salo (born 1974)Finnish curler

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

Surnames like Salo

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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.