Solomon

At the 2020 census, 46,541 Americans bore the surname Solomon — 725th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,422.

By the numbers

People: 46,541
Rank: 725th
How common: 1 in 6,422
Per 100,000: 15.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Latin Solomōn (variant of Salomon), from Ancient Greek Σολομών, from Biblical Hebrew שְׁלֹמֹה, from שָׁלוֹם (“peace”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 54.1%
Black, not Hispanic 33.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Solomon

Susan Solomon (born 1956)American atmospheric chemist
Manor Solomon (born 1999)Israeli association footballer
Suniti Solomon (1938–2015)Indian physician
Simeon Solomon (1840–1905)British artist
Jarrin Solomon (born 1986)Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
Harold Solomon (born 1952)American tennis player
Rebecca Solomon (1832–1886)British painter
Will Solomon (born 1978)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Solomon

Also a first name

Solomon has been given to 38,080 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. 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.