Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese

Salomão

Salomão is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Portuguese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Salomão comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Hebrew.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Portuguese usage, Salomão developed from Salomon. In Portuguese usage, Salomão developed from Σολομών.

Salomão’s family of names

In Portuguese usage, Salomão developed from the Latin form Salomon. In Portuguese usage, Salomão has a conventional equivalent in the English form Solomon. In Portuguese usage, Salomão developed from the Ancient Greek form Σολομών.

Walk Salomão’s family in the name graph

SalomãoSalomaoSalomaõSolomãoSolomonSalomonΣολομών

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Salomão has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.

Hebrew

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Salomão

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Salomão, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Hebrew

Simão

“Yahweh has heard”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

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Sabado

“Sabbath, Saturday”

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Hebrew

Sámal

Sámal is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Faroese.

No U.S. birth series

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Sallai

“heaping up” · “highway making”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew

Aarão

Aarão is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Portuguese.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew

Sakaris

“Yahweh has remembered”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew

Samlah

“robe”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Sadoc

“righteous” · “just”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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