How common is the surname Salemi?

1,365 people in the United States had the surname Salemi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,187 Americans. It ranked 19,731st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Salemi?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Salemi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Salemi getting more or less common?

More common. 1,322 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,365 in 2010, up 3.3%.

The surname Salemi

An Italian surname, carried by 1,365 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Salemi is more common than 87.8% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Salemi.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,365 people named Salemi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 226,187 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,322.

#19,731

rank among US surnames

1,365

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+3.3%

change since 2000 (was #19,048)

Who is named Salemi

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

92% of people named Salemi identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
Two or more races 2.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Salemi

Salemi has the Soundex code S450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S450.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Salemi come from?: Borrowed from Italian Salemi.
How common is the surname Salemi?: 1,365 people in the United States had the surname Salemi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 226,187 Americans. It ranked 19,731st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Salemi?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Salemi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Salemi getting more or less common?: More common. 1,322 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,365 in 2010, up 3.3%.