Saulo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saulo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as Saul (original name of Paul).
- BRBrazil1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 19K
- COColombia≈1 in 33K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
54,061 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 (original name of Paul)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Saulo is read(measured from records)
Saulo 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.
- Portuguese68%
Saul (original name of Paul)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish23%
Saul, the original name of Apostle Paul
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Saulo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #700 | 54,061 | 1 in 3.9K | 54K | Saulo | 177 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Saulo | 10 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Saulo | 51 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 2 | Saulo | 52 |
| US United States | — | 1,323 | 1 in 251K | 1.3K | Saulo | 145 |
| GT Guatemala | #750 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Saulo | 15 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 857 | 1 in 20K | 857 | Saulo | 21 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Saulo | 19 |
54,061 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Saulo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, committing to memory; memorization
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Saulo Kepsub. 1933FIFinnish historian
- Saulo Estevao da Costa Pimentab. 1974BRBrazilian association football player
- Saulo Ribeirob. 1974BRBrazilian martial artist
- Saulo Fernandesb. 1977BRBrazilian Axé singer
- Saulo Batista de Andrade Cordeirob. 1979BRfootballer
- Saulo Rodrigues dos Santosb. 1982BRBrazilian footballer
- Saulo Squarsone Rodrigues dos Santosb. 1985BRBrazilian footballer
- Saulo Araújo Fontesb. 1989BRBrazilian footballer
- Saulo Decarlib. 1992CHSwiss footballer
- Saulo Mineirob. 1997BRBrazilian association football player
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 45 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Saulo mean, and where does it come from?
- Saul (original name of Paul) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Saulo a male or female name?
- Saulo 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 Saulo?
- In the etymology graph, Saúl is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Saulo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Saulo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saulo.
- Where is Saulo most common?
- Saulo is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Saulo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 54,061 people named Saulo in 2022, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Saulo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Saulo is the 700th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sauloThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Saulo” — the 700th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.