Given name & surname · also Late Latin
Salvador
“a savior”
Salvador is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a savior.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a savior.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
How it developed
The name draws on Late Latin salvator, meaning “saviour”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Salvador through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 49,788
- 49,605 boys · 183 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 929 babies
- 2025
- 341
- #756 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −10%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 341 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 756 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 9.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 922 in 1992. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (84). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 80,151 as a first name in 2020; 13,352 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Salvador’s family of names
Salvador has a short form in Sal. In Spanish usage, Salvador shares a linguistic root with the Italian form Salvatore. Salvador has a related form in Salvadore.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Salvador has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
11 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Salvatorevariant · Italian, English
- Saldiminutive · English
- Adordiminutive · ceb
- Soteriosvariant
- Salvadorevariant
- Salvatorvariant
- Chambadiminutive · Spanish
- Salbatorevariant
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Spellings & scripts 3
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Salvador
- Salvador DalíSpanish artist (1904–1989)
- Salvador Allende28th president of Chile (1908–1973
- Salvador SobralPortuguese singerborn 1989
- Salvador LuriaItalian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
- Salvador Sánchez Cerénpresident of El Salvador (2014–2019)born 1944
- Salvador de MadariagaSpanish diplomat, writer and historian (1886-1978)
- Salvador CabañasParaguayan footballerborn 1980
- Salvador Puig AntichSpanish militant anarchist (1948–1974)
- Salvador SadurníSpanish footballerborn 1941
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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