Salamon

Boys' name

Variant of Solomon

Salamon has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1961. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Salamon, 2011

1 in 610,000

Salamon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Salamon: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Solomon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Salamon means

Salamon is a variant of Solomon.

Origin, language, and formation

Salamon is used in Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Solomon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Salamon is pronounced [ˈʃɒlɒmon].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Salamon between 1961 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2001; its best national rank was #4,561 in 1961.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Salamon?

Salamon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011: 1 in 610,000; 6 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only: 1 in 317,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 422,582 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Salamon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salamon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salamons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Salamon was born before 2001 — so the typical Salamon is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 70.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 17; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Salamon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2001 (6)
Years since peak: 24; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,561; 1961

Spellings of Salamon

Salamon is not the most common spelling — Solomon is, with 78.9% against Salamon's 0.04%.

Solomon78.9%38,069
Salomon8.0%3,864
Salman5.4%2,583
Almon3.3%1,610
Lamon3.0%1,458
Shamon1.4%659
Salamon0.04%17

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Salamon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,561; 1961
Peak year: 2001; 6 that year
First recorded: 1961
Last recorded: 2011
All-time count: 17
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Salamon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Salmon Salomon Salahudin Salter Salvado Salazar Salinger Salix Salmaan Colemon Chazmon Willmon Salatiel Cademon Saimon Saliou Thelmon Saymon Stedmon Traymon Salif Salvotore Saladine Saliym

Sibling names for Salamon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Magaly Nyah Lesli Nya Alysa Danae Joana Madisen

For a brother

Destin Cristobal Dallin Donavon Coby Kevon Zakary Keyon

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