How common is the surname Saliba?

2,245 people in the United States had the surname Saliba in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,526 Americans. It ranked 13,509th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Saliba?

In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Saliba identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Saliba getting more or less common?

More common. 1,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,245 in 2010, up 24%.

The surname Saliba

A surname, carried by 2,245 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S410

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Saliba is more common than 91.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,245 people named Saliba in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,526 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,809.

#13,509

rank among US surnames

2,245

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+24.1%

change since 2000 (was #14,995)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,502	Nehring	2,248	137,342
#13,505	Fewell	2,247	137,403
#13,506	Dekker	2,246	137,465
#13,509	Klepper	2,245	137,526
#13,517	Amico	2,244	137,587

Who is named Saliba

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

85% of people named Saliba identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 4.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 85%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.8%
Two or more races 3.1%

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 Saliba

Saliba has the Soundex code S410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S410.

Questions

How common is the surname Saliba?: 2,245 people in the United States had the surname Saliba in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,526 Americans. It ranked 13,509th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Saliba?: In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Saliba identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Saliba getting more or less common?: More common. 1,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,245 in 2010, up 24%.