Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Saúl comes from Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Saul, from Ancient Greek Σαούλ, from Hebrew שאול.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Saúl’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Saúl has a conventional equivalent in the English form Saul. In Spanish usage, Saúl can be written in the Roman alphabet as ซาอุล.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Saúl
- Saul PerlmutterAmerican astrophysicist and Nobel laureateborn 1959
- SaúlSpanish association football playerborn 1994
- Saúl MartínezHonduran association football playerborn 1976
- Saul BassAmerican graphic designer and filmmaker (1920–1996)
- Saul AlinskyAmerican community organizer and writer (1909–1972)
- Saul WilliamsAmerican singer, musician, poet, writer, and actorborn 1972
- Saúl CraviottoSpanish kayakerborn 1984
- Saul FriedländerIsraeli historian and Holocaust survivor (born 1932)
- Saul RubinekCanadian actor and director (born 1948)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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