Salisu

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Salisu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hausa/Fulani form used for the third day of birth.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 1K◐
  • KEKenya1 in 68K
  • GHGhana1 in 166K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

121K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
86 ●

84K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

Hausa/Fulani form used for the third day of birth.

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Salisu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#7869,77583K rec.——Salisu86
KE Kenya—4220 rec.——Salisu1
US United States—206461 rec.—listedSalisu81
GH Ghana#860103132 rec.——Salisu28
GB United Kingdom—5181 rec.——Salisu27
DE Germany—1327 rec.——Salisu12
MY Malaysia—84 rec.——Salisu7
IN India—79 rec.——Salisu6
CM Cameroon—714 rec.——Salisu3
CN China—62 rec.——Salisu4
TR Türkiye—69 rec.——Salisu2
ES Spain——7 rec.—16—11

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Languages●

  • English70K58%
  • Swahili29K24%
  • Indonesian5.8K5%
  • Arabic4.9K4%
  • Hindi3K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English70,47258%
Swahili29,20024%
Indonesian5,7615%
Arabic4,8644%
Hindi2,9732%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Salisu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name14K records spelled Salisu3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sâlîsû

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Salisu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, third

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence●

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Salisu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—16#94,489
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#38,945
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#40,209
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#50,255
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#236,690
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#381,656
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#177,399
SL Sierra LeoneNEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates20181#33
SL Sierra LeoneNEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables20121#24
SL Sierra LeoneNEC/ECSL — 2012 parliamentary and Local Council nominated candidates20121#24

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Salisu?
Our records include 121,384 bearers of Salisu across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Salisu have the most bearers?
Salisu is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled salisu.
How common is Salisu compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Salisu is the 78th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Salisu a male or female name?
Salisu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Salisu mean?
Recorded meaning: Hausa/Fulani form used for the third day of birth.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Salisu” — the 78th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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