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Saulius

Boys' name

English equivalent of Saul

Saulius has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1953, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Saulius, 1957

1 in 840,000

Saulius over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saulius: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Saul

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saulius means

Saulius is a English equivalent of Saul.

Origin, language, and formation

Saulius is used in Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Saul.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Saulius is pronounced [ˈsɐʊ̯ˑlʲʊs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Saulius between 1953 and 1957. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1953; its best national rank was #4,262 in 1953.

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 Saulius?

Saulius had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1957
1 in 840,000
5 of 4,201,368 births
Among boys only
1 in 431,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1957
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
582,434 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saulius 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 1957 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 582,434 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saulius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sauliuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saulius was born before 1956 — so the typical Saulius is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Saulius 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1953 (5)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,262
1953

Spellings of Saulius

Saulius is not the most common spelling — Julius is, with 100.0% against Saulius's 0.02%.

  • Julius100.0%84,628
  • Saulius0.02%15

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.

Saulius around the world

Where Saulius 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.

  • Norway
    1880–1989
    #567
    in 1989
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #468
    in 1960

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saulius 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
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Best rank ever
#4,262
1953
Peak year
1953
5 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1957
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saulius

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

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Sibling names for Saulius

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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