Salvador
Salvador is a boy's name that peaked in 1992, when it was the 291st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 754th. About 40,000 Salvadors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Salvador boys named Salvador
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 49,788
- Estimated living today
- 40,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1992
- Best rank
- 291st
- Rank in 2025
- 754th
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 183 / 49,605
How old the living Salvadors are
born that year still alive today
Of the 49,788 babies given the name since 1888, about 40,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 7,900 of them are children and 3,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish, Portuguese
From es, pt Salvador, chiefly various placenames honoring Jesus Christ, from es, pt salvador (“savior”), from Latin salvator, from salvāre (“to save”) + -tor. In Spanish placenames, frequently a clipping of Spanish San Salvador (“Holy Savior”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Salvadors
- Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)Spanish artist
- Salvador Allende (1908–1973)28th president of Chile (1908–1973
- Salvador Sobral (born 1989)Portuguese singer
- Salvador Luria (1912–1991)Italian American microbiologist
- Salvador Sánchez Cerén (born 1944)president of El Salvador
- Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926–2010)President of the Dominican Republic
- Salvador de Madariaga (1886–1978)Spanish diplomat, writer and historian
- Salvador Cabañas (born 1980)Paraguayan footballer
People named Salvador with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Salvador is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Salvador is most concentrated in California (4.8×), New Mexico (3.9×), Arizona (3.0×), Texas (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1992
The most popular boys’ names the year Salvador peaked:
Salvador elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal boys | Salvador | 5,985 name registrations | 15th |
| France boys | Salvador | 2,125 | 273rd |
| Spain boys | Salvador | 359 | 99th |
| England and Wales boys | Salvador | 323 | 1,187th |
| Switzerland boys | Salvador | 267 | 319th |
| Poland boys | Salvador | 29 birth registrations | 402nd |
| Belgium boys | Salvador | 11 | 1,232nd |
| Ireland boys | Salvador | 7 | 527th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Salvador: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Salvador | 138 | 0.011% | 377th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Salvador | 128 | 0.029% | 143rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Salvador | 1 | 0.002% | 169th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Salvador is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.04% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Salvador: rank by region
In 2025, Salvador was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Salvador | 269 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Salvador among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Salvador | 6 | 43 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Salvador lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 72,713 men called Salvador were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Málaga | Salvador | 9,317 | 10.652 | 15 |
| Valencia/València | Salvador | 12,076 | 8.927 | 19 |
| Murcia | Salvador | 5,208 | 6.552 | 31 |
| Cádiz | Salvador | 3,280 | 5.285 | 42 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Salvador | 1,280 | 4.101 | 48 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Salvador | 3,764 | 3.743 | 47 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Salvador against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.