Salvatore
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Religious name borne in honour of Christ the Saviour: from Late Latin salvator ‘saviour’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsæɫvəˌdɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Salvatore is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 216(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.5K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 216 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Religious name borne in honour of Christ the Saviour: from Late Latin salvator ‘saviour’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salvatore 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #26 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 216 | 1.2K | Salvatore | 235 |
| US United States | — | 33,417 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Salvatore | 397 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Salvatore | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Salvatore | 131 |
| BE Belgium | #249 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 112 | Salvatore | 105 |
| CH Switzerland | #585 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 219 | Salvatore | 78 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | 149 | Salvatore | 41 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Salvatore is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, rescuer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Nome cristiano che significa 'colui che salva'; sostituisce Gesù.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, forma italiana de Salvator.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Colui che salva
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Salvator Rosab. 1615ITnot in their usual nameItalian painter, poet and printmaker (1615 –1673)
- Vincenzo Bellinib. 1801ITnot in their usual nameItalian opera composer (1801–1835)
- Lucky Lucianeb. 1897ITnot in their usual nameItalian American mobster (1897–1962)
- Salvatore Quasimodob. 1901ITItalian writer (1901-1968)
- Sonny Bonob. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican entertainer, musician and politician (1935–1998)
- Sal Mineob. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1939-1976)
- Salvatore Adamob. 1943ITBelgian recording artist of Italian birth; musician, songwriter, singer
- Toto Cutugnob. 1943ITnot in their usual nameItalian recording artist; musician, songwriter, record producer (1943–2023)
- Salvatore Garaub. 1953ITItalian artist (born 1953)
- Salvatore Schillacib. 1964ITItalian association football player (1964–2024)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 86 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33K | #1,179 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1.2K | #33 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 249 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 149 | #6,440 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32 | #1,179 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Salvatore mean, and where does it come from?
- Religious name borne in honour of Christ the Saviour: from Late Latin salvator ‘saviour’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Salvatore?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsæɫvəˌdɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Salvatore?
- In the etymology graph, Salvador and Salvator are forms of the same name in other languages; Tore is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Salvatore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 289 thousand people named Salvatore in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvatore.
- How common is the name Salvatore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,417 people named Salvatore in 2020, about 1 in 10.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Salvatore compared with other names?
- In Italy, Salvatore is the 26th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- Is Salvatore a male or female name?
- Salvatore 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.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/salvatoreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Salvatore” — the 26th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.