Salomon

6,849 people in the United States were counted with the surname Salomon in the 2020 census, making it the 4,968th most common in the country. That is about one person in 43,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,849
Rank: 4,968th
How common: 1 in 43,600
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Jewish, German, Dutch, Danish, Polish, French, Breton, Haitian, Mauritian, and Spanish (as Salomón) surname, all a variant of Solomon.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 40.1%
White, not Hispanic 32.2%
Black, not Hispanic 20.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Salomon

Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943)German-Jewish artist and Holocaust victim
Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972)German writer and right-wing Freikorps member
Alice Salomon (1872–1948)German social reformer
Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815)German violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario;
Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888–1968)SA officer
Erich Salomon (1886–1944)German photojournalist
Mikael Salomon (born 1945)Danish cinematographer and director
Lysius Salomon (1815–1888)President of Haiti

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

Surnames like Salomon

Also a first name

Salomon has been given to 3,864 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.