Salvador

Salvador is the 2,638th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,352 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,400.

By the numbers

People: 13,352
Rank: 2,638th
How common: 1 in 22,400
Per 100,000: 4.5

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Salvador described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 57.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 25.1%
White, not Hispanic 12.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Salvador

Henri Salvador (1917–2008)French Caribbean recording artist; singer, songwriter
Maja Salvador (born 1988)Filipino actress
Iban Salvador (born 1995)Equatorial Guinean association football player
Ileana Salvador (born 1962)Italian racewalker
Janella Salvador (born 1998)Filipino actress
Bryce Salvador (born 1976)Canadian ice hockey player

People named Salvador with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Salvador

Also a first name

Salvador has been given to 49,788 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1992. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.