Saul

6,843 people in the United States were counted with the surname Saul in the 2020 census, making it the 4,974th most common in the country. That is about one person in 43,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,843
Rank: 4,974th
How common: 1 in 43,700
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

which derived from Aramaic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.0%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%

Notable people called Saul

John R. Saul (born 1947)Canadian writer, International PEN president and public intellectual

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

Surnames like Saul

Also a first name

Saul has been given to 43,362 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2006. 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.