Salmela is a Finnish surname.
==Geographical distribution== As of 2014, 81.1% of all known bearers of the surname Salmela were residents of Finland (frequency 1:1,061), 9.0% of the United States (1:628,263), 4.4% of Sweden (1:35,293), 2.4% of Estonia (1:8,638) and 1.2% of Australia (1:316,985).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).