Saúl
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Saul, the king of Israel
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saúl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 62nd most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 529(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 419 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 529 (inferred from the name graph)
51,866 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Saul in US United States, PE Peru, SV El Salvador and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Saul, the king of Israel
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saúl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #829 | 51,866 | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Saul | 419 |
| PE Peru | #238 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Saul | 89 |
| ES Spain | #392 | 18,793 | 1 in 2.7K | 19K | Saul | 149 |
| CO Colombia | #394 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 14 | Saul | 111 |
| VE Venezuela | #274 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Saul | 60 |
| SV El Salvador | #129 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 529 | — | Saul | 56 |
| HN Honduras | #62 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Saul | 41 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 8,420 | 1 in 2K | 8.4K | Saul | 51 |
51,866 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Saul Alinskyb. 1909USAmerican community organizer and writer (1909–1972)
- Saul Chaplinb. 1912USAmerican composer and musical director (1912-1997)
- Saul Bassb. 1920USAmerican graphic designer and filmmaker (1920–1996)
- Carlos Saúl Menemb. 1930ARArgentinean president between 1989 and 1999
- Saul Rubinekb. 1948CACanadian actor and director (born 1948)
- Saul Perlmutterb. 1959USAmerican astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Saul Dibbb. 1968GBBritish film director and screenwriter
- Saúl Álvarezb. 1990MXMexican boxer
- Saúl Ñíguezb. 1994ESSpanish association football player
- Saúl Cocob. 1999ESEquatorial Guinean association football player (born 1999)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Saúl mean, and where does it come from?
- Saul, the king of Israel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Saúl a male or female name?
- Saúl 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 are other forms of the name Saúl?
- In the etymology graph, Saulo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Saúl have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Saúl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saul.
- How common is the name Saúl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,866 people named Saúl in 2020, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Saúl compared with other names?
- In the United States, Saúl is the 829th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sa%C3%BAlThe 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, “Saúl” — the 829th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.