Saül
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/sawl/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Saül is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 62nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl).
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 510(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 820
- HNHonduras≈1 in 900
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 419 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 510 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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, MX Mexico, PE Peru and 4 more and Saúl in PA Panama.
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)From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl).
Cited for this meaning 17
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saül 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #168 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 822 | 1K | Saul | 221 |
| US United States | #829 | 51,866 | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Saul | 419 |
| PE Peru | #238 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Saul | 89 |
| CO Colombia | #394 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 14 | Saul | 111 |
| ES Spain | #392 | 18,793 | 1 in 2.7K | 19K | Saul | 149 |
| SV El Salvador | #129 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 510 | — | Saul | 56 |
| HN Honduras | #62 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 898 | — | Saul | 41 |
| PA Panama | #705 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 4 | Saúl | 51 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)- Saül Gordillo i Bernàrdezb. 1972ESCatalan journalist
- Saül GarretaESCatalan politician
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saül mean, and where does it come from?
- From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 15 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Saül?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /sawl/; in French /sa.yl/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Saül a male or female name?
- Saül 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Saül?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 thousand people named Saül in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saul. After it come United States, Peru, Colombia and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Saül?
- In the United States, the national register counted 51,866 people named Saül in 2020, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Saül compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Saül is the 168th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saül?
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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%BClThe 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, “Saül” — the 168th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.