Saül

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sawl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Saül 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. Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl).

rarermore common
  • 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)

51,866 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
419 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 529 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SaülLatin(measured from records)
საულGeorgian(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)

From Biblical Hebrew שָׁאוּל (shaúl).

Sources 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.

Where Saül is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#82951,8661 in 6.4K52KSaul419
PE Peru#238≈23,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Saul89
ES Spain#39218,7931 in 2.7K19KSaul149
CO Colombia#394≈16,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K14Saul111
VE Venezuela#274≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Saul60
SV El Salvador#129≈12,000 est.≈1 in 529—Saul56
HN Honduras#62≈8,700 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Saul41
EC Ecuador—8,4201 in 2K8.4KSaul51

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Saül is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Saul, Şaul, Saúl, Saùl, Säül

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Saul, Sául, Ṣaul, Saùl, Šaúl

  • Lao given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Saul, เซาท์, เซ้าท์, Saúl, South

  • Czech given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Saul, Saúl, Sául, Šaul

  • Russian surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Сауль, Saul, Саул, Сол, Saúl

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

InformalHola Saül,Hi Saül, (English)

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 5 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 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?
A machine transcription gives /sawl/ (IPA) for Spanish.
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.
In which country does Saül have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Saül, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saul.
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 the United States, Saül is the 829th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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The 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 829th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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