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Salvator

Boys' name

Form of Salvador

Salvator has been given to 920 babies in the U.S. since 1910. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Salvator, 2009

1 in 478,000

Salvator over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Salvator: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Salvador

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Salvator means

Salvator is a form of Salvador.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Salvator is used in Late Roman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Salvator → Salvador. The family’s meaning is “savior”, recorded in English with the source elements salvador.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Salvador.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 920 boys were recorded with the name Salvator between 1910 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,256 in 1922.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Salvator?

Salvator had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 478,000
8 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 248,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,006 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Salvator sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,006 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Salvator. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Salvators were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Salvator was born before 1934 — so the typical Salvator is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
294
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (250).

Is Salvator rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (41)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
84.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,256
1922

Spellings of Salvator

Salvator is not the most common spelling — Salvatore is, with 52.5% against Salvator's 0.84%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Salvator is used

Across 1910–2025, Salvator was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 92,847 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Salvator has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Salvator around the world

Where Salvator ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–1987
    #2,856
    in 1987
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Salvator by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,256
1922
Peak year
1989
41 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
920
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Salvator

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SalbadorSalmaanSalomonSaleemSalahSalvadoreSalmanSalihAlastorSalehSalahuddinSalaarSalimSalomeSaliouCastorSalarHeitorSaladinSallySalemSalvadorViktorAstor

Sibling names for Salvator

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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