# Salvo (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/salvo/  
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 Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,656 |
| US rank (2010) | 11,793 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 116,245 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.8% (2,534 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan (Salvó) surname, all from the adjective salvo (“safe, saved”), or from its Latin source salvus (“safe”), found in names like Salvus and Salvone.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Salvo 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) | 85% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 7.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 5.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.0% |

## Similar surnames

Salva, Salvi, Silva, Self, Shelby, Selby, Sylvia, Silvia, Silvey, Scalf, Selph, Saliba.

## 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.