Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Saviour comes from English, and ultimately from English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Saviour through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 204
- 204 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 49 babies
- 2025
- 34
- #3,436 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +215%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 34 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,436 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 172 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.
Saviour’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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