Salvatore
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Religious name borne in honour of Christ the Saviour: from Late Latin salvator ‘saviour’
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 37 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/sal.vaˈto.re/(recorded in a dictionary) Italian · from Wiktionary
Salvatore is a male 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 140(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.8K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2K
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)
- Record sources
- 397 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 139 (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Salvatore, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
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 | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 139 | 1.2K | Salvatore | 235 |
| US United States | — | 33,417 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Salvatore | 397 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Salvatore | 131 |
| BE Belgium | #249 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 112 | Salvatore | 105 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 3.6K | Salvatore | 259 |
| CH Switzerland | #585 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 219 | Salvatore | 78 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Vincenzo Bellinib. 1801ITnot in their usual nameItalian opera composer (1801–1835)
- Salvatore Quasimodob. 1901ITItalian writer (1901-1968)
- Salvatore Garaub. 1953ITItalian artist (born 1953)
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)86 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 37 countries.
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.
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Salvatore?
- In Italian /sal.vaˈto.re/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Salvatore?
- Mondonomo estimates about 424 thousand people named Salvatore in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled salvatore. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Belgium and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Spain (INE) and Italy (ISTAT, 2024), among others.
What do you want to know about Salvatore?
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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 2026-10-13.