Salvador
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: lar medieval and modern given name (L Salvator ‘Saviour’, a deriv. of salvare to save; cf. Sauv£), borne in honour of Christ. The given name is also popular in Italy, esp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/salβaðoɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salvador is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 28th most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 315(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 688
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 968
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #764 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 315 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
name of catholic inspiration; the Saviour
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Salvador is read(measured from records)
Salvador is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish72%
lar medieval and modern given name (L Salvator ‘Saviour’, a deriv. of salvare to save; cf. Sauv£), borne in honour of Christ. The given name is also popular in Italy, esp. in the south, partly as a result of Sp. influence. Cogns.: It.: Salvadori, Salvadore; Salvator(i), Salvatore. Dims.: It.: Salvatorello, Salvatorelli.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
a male given name, given in honor of Christ as the Savior (Salvador)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
city, Brazil
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salvador counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #186 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 968 | — | Salvador | 108 |
| US United States | #896 | 80,151 | 1 in 4.2K | 80K | Salvador | 432 |
| ES Spain | #126 | 72,713 | 1 in 688 | 76K | Salvador | 204 |
| AR Argentina | #254 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 5.2K | Salvador | 124 |
| BR Brazil | — | 25,173 | 1 in 8.4K | 33K | — | 5 |
| SV El Salvador | #56 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 315 | — | Salvador | 88 |
| NI Nicaragua | #28 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Salvador | 46 |
| SM San Marino | #271 | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Salvador | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Salvador is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
name of catholic inspiration; the Saviour
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Religious name borne in honour of Christ the Saviour: from Late Latin salvdator ‘saviour’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, redução dialetal setentrional de Salvadore.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Salvadore Cammaranob. 1801ITnot in their usual nameItalian librettist and playwright (1801-1852)
- Salvador de Madariagab. 1886ESSpanish diplomat, writer and historian (1886-1978)
- Salvador Dalíb. 1904ESSpanish artist (1904–1989)
- Salvador Allendeb. 1908CL28th president of Chile (1908–1973
- Salvador Edward Luriab. 1912USItalian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
- Salvador Minuchinb. 1921ARArgentine psychotherapist (1921–2017)
- Quinob. 1932ARnot in their usual nameArgentine cartoonist (1932-2020)
- Salvador Sánchez Cerénb. 1944SVpresident of El Salvador (2014–2019)
- Vorob. 1963ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Salvador Sobralb. 1989PTPortuguese singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 102 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 80K | #661 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 76K | #57 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 73K | #130 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 33K | #1,019 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 25K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25K | #914 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2.2K | #59 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 904 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 904 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 341 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 145 | #661 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 85 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Salvador come from?
- name of catholic inspiration; the Saviour Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Is Salvador a male or female name?
- Salvador is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Salvador mean?
- In Spanish, lar medieval and modern given name (L Salvator ‘Saviour’, a deriv. of salvare to save; cf. Sauv£), borne in honour of Christ. The given name is also popular in Italy, esp.
- What are other forms of the name Salvador?
- In the etymology graph, Salvatore and Salvator are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Salvador?
- A machine transcription gives /salβaðoɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Salvador have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 113 thousand people named Salvador in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvador.
- How common is the name Salvador?
- In the United States, the national register counted 80,151 people named Salvador in 2020, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Salvador compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Salvador is the 186th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Salvador” — the 186th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.