Salt is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Salt
No. of characters: 4
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Salt

How popular is Salt?

Salt is common in United States.

Salt is ranked 31926 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Salts plummeted by 0.4516712 per cent to 1102 since 2000 and slipped by 1273 spots and ranked at 23153. The last name was found in around 4 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 58.08 61.79
American Indian and Alaska Native 30.76 29.09
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 6.26 4.25
Hispanic or Latino 2.45 1.26
Salt is quite popular family name mostly used in England while Falkland Islands is ahead in terms of density. Around 15679 people have been found who wears Salt as their family name. Salt is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
85 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha9
9,568 Thailand8
41 Falkland Islands6
607,991 Indonesia5
8,438 China5
7,594 Pakistan5
11,802 Egypt4
127,708 Czech Republic3
16,136 Kenya3
52,939 United Arab Emirates2
40,064 Nigeria2
993 Guernsey2
14,408 Uruguay2
250 Tonga2
3,014 Taiwan2
631 Swaziland2
10,267 Sri Lanka2
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
65,594 Belgium2
44,018 Poland2
28,083 Romania2
1,834 Malta2
13,552 Qatar2
15,705 Cameroon1
4,249 Cambodia1
2,877 Cuba1
340 Comoros1
1,879 Belize1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
24,771 Colombia1
2,211 Brunei1
34,581 Chile1
10,683 Cyprus1
3,993 El Salvador1
6,149 Ethiopia1
2,024 Mongolia1
8,828 Puerto Rico1
4,171 Rwanda1
6,967 Macedonia1
4,942 Libya1
16,073 Latvia1
1,819 Laos1
14,373 Jordan1
11,510 Oman1
9,498 Iceland1
48,575 Azerbaijan1
31,584 Peru1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
9,524 Portugal37
20,103 Norway33
36,533 Zimbabwe32
52,947 Netherlands31
861 Barbados31
42,407 Sweden22
15,050 Singapore18
1,163 Jersey17
14,048 Ireland16
29,040 Denmark15
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
2,305 Northern Ireland95
7,068 Lithuania90
2,858 Hong Kong83
197,943 India72
133,875 France61
66,582 Argentina60
19,965 Switzerland54
Countries with hundreds of Salt:
3,478 Australia880
7,835 South Africa822
5,996 Canada718
27,752 Philippines451
1,904 New Zealand395
1,086 Namibia326
34,330 Germany303
1,678 Wales237
2,934 Scotland223
47,291 Brazil223
16,885 Spain189
23,602 Mexico131
62,979 Italy101
15,665 Malaysia101
Countries with thousands of Salt:
1,367 England5,775
3,807 Turkey2,550
22,631 United States1,387
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Workman Thomas Salt from Great Britain aboard the China from Liverpool during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 33 years old when he arrived in USA on April 19, 1849. Immigrant Mary Salt, John Salt, Ann Salt, aged 5, 30 years old John Salt, 33 years old William Salt, Mark-Henry Salt, aged 29, Elizabeth Salt, 3 years old John-Harry Salt, Infant Jane-Morris Salt, and 10 other Salt around 66.67% of whom were workman migrated to US.

Salt Namesakes

  • Justin Salter, Musician
  • Abbie Salt, Actress
  • Mark Saltveit, Writer
  • Aleksei Saltykov, Film director
  • Alisa Saltykova, Irina Saltykova's daughter
  • Lisa Salters, Journalist
  • Martin Salter, British Politician
  • Justin Salter, Musician
  • Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Baseball catcher
  • Anette Saltskår, Soccer player

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