Given name
Saulius
Saulius is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Saulius isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Saulius through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1953
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1957. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 245 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Saulius’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Saulius has a conventional equivalent in the English form Saul.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Saulius
- Saulius Skvernelisprime minister of Lithuania from 2016 to 2020born 1970
- Saulius MikoliūnasLithuanian association football playerborn 1984
- Saulius ŠtombergasLithuanian basketball player (born 1973)
- Saulius RitterLithuanian rowerborn 1988
- Saulius SondeckisLithuanian violinist, conductor, orchestra leader and professor1928–2016
- Saulius KlevinskasLithuanian footballerborn 1984
- Saulius AmbrulevičiusLithuanian figure skaterborn 1992
- Saulius ŠaltenisLithuanian politicianborn 1945
- Saulius KulvietisLithuanian basketball player (born 1991)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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