Salvatore
About 57,445 American babies have been named Salvatore since 1888, most of them around 1927. In 2025 it ranked 943rd. About 29,000 Salvatores are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Salvatore boys named Salvatore
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,445
- Estimated living today
- 29,000
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 149th
- Rank in 2025
- 943rd
- First recorded
- 1888
- Girls / boys
- 81 / 57,364
How old the living Salvatores are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,445 babies given the name since 1888, about 29,000 are alive — 50 in every hundred. Roughly 4,300 of them are children and 8,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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 Italian
Borrowed from Italian Salvatore.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Salvatores
- Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968)Italian writer
- Salvatore Schillaci (1964–2024)Italian association football player
- Salvatore Sirigu (born 1987)Italian association football player
- Salvatore Riina (1930–2017)Sicilian mafia boss
- Salvatore Adamo (born 1943)Belgian recording artist of Italian birth; musician, songwriter, singer
- Salvatore Garau (born 1953)Italian artist
- Salvatore Bocchetti (born 1986)Italian association football player and manager
- Salvatore Accardo (born 1941)Italian classical violinist and conductor
People named Salvatore with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Salvatore is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Salvatore is most concentrated in New York (6.4×), Connecticut (5.4×), New Jersey (4.6×), Rhode Island (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular boys’ names the year Salvatore peaked:
Salvatore elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Salvatore | 49,198 | — |
| France boys | Salvatore +1 spelling | 3,695 | 140th |
| Belgium boys | Salvatore | 543 | 288th |
| Switzerland boys | Salvatore | 283 | 331st |
| England and Wales boys | Salvatore | 230 | 1,879th |
| Italy girls | Salvatore | 211 | — |
| Poland boys | Salvatore | 25 birth registrations | 283rd |
| Scotland boys | Salvatore | 3 | 288th |
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.
Salvatore: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Salvatore | 200 | 0.016% | 289th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Salvatore | 53 | 0.012% | 293rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Salvatore | 30 | 0.046% | 88th |
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, Salvatore is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Salvatore: rank by region
In 2025, Salvatore was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Salvatore | 394 | 6 |
In 2024, Salvatore was among the 10 most common names in 3 regions of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Salvatore | 8 | 1 |
| Campania | Salvatore | 10 | 472 |
| Sicilia | Salvatore | 6 | 443 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Salvatore appears in the lists for Isole (8th).
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Salvatore appears in the lists for Province of Liège (187th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – 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.
Salvatore by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Salvatore 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 | Salvatore | 15 | 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 Salvatore lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,269 men called Salvatore 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Salvatore | 162 | 0.304 | 342 |
| Palmas, Las | Salvatore | 103 | 0.177 | 547 |
| Balears, Illes | Salvatore | 99 | 0.159 | 504 |
| Málaga | Salvatore | 91 | 0.104 | 612 |
| Barcelona | Salvatore | 222 | 0.076 | 831 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Salvatore | 75 | 0.075 | 966 |
Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Salvatore 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.