Find out how popular the last name Salkind is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Salkind.

Salkind, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Salkind surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Salkind in America

Salkind is the 108199th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Salkind surname appeared 164 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Salkind.

We can also compare 2010 data for Salkind to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Salkind

The surname Salkind is of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, originating from Eastern Europe in the late 18th century. It is believed to be a variant of the surname Salkin, which was derived from the Hebrew name Zalkin, a diminutive of Zechariah. The name may have been altered to Salkind through the process of Anglicization or assimilation into different cultures and languages.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Salkind can be found in the town of Bialystok, in what is now northeastern Poland, during the late 1700s. The name was also present in various other regions of Eastern Europe, including Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine, where large Jewish communities thrived before the onset of World War II.

In the early 19th century, the name Salkind appears in various documents and records from the Russian Empire, where many Ashkenazi Jews lived at the time. Some notable individuals bearing the name during this period include Yitzchak Salkind, a prominent rabbi and scholar who lived in the town of Mir (now in Belarus) in the mid-1800s.

As Jewish communities began to migrate and disperse throughout Europe and beyond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the name Salkind spread to other regions. One notable figure was Herman Salkind, a Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist born in Russia in 1876, who later settled in New York City and became involved in various charitable endeavors.

Another individual of note was Max Salkind, a Polish-born writer and journalist who lived from 1882 to 1945. He was active in literary circles in Warsaw and later fled to the United States during World War II, where he continued his writing career.

In the 20th century, the name Salkind also gained some prominence in the entertainment industry. Ilya Salkind, a Mexican-born film producer of Russian-Jewish descent (1947-2021), was known for his work on the Superman film series in the 1970s and 1980s.

While the surname Salkind has its roots in Eastern European Jewish communities, it has since become more widely dispersed and can be found among various cultural and geographic backgrounds around the world.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Salkind

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Salkind.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Salkind was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Salkind has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Salkind was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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