# Salas (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/salas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Spanish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Spanish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 65,468 |
| US rank (2010) | 513 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 4,716 people |
| Change since 2000 | +36% (48,282 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Spanish Salas, from salas.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Salas in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 6.5% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 90% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.0% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 0.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Salas in Argentina and the United States.

## People named Salas

- Joseph Salas, American boxer
- Maximiliano Salas, Argentine association football player
- Ailín Salas, Argentine actress
- Damian Salas, Argentinian poker player

## Similar surnames

Seals, Sales, Sauls, Sayles, Silas, Seales, Salais, Salls, Sallis, Salles, Scales, Swails.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.