Boy · Italian, from Latin
Salvatore
Say it: sal-vah-TOH-reh
Meaning
From Italian salvatore 'saviour', referring to Christ.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Long one of the most common men's names in Sicily and southern Italy.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1920s
In the United States
- 56,151 babies given this name since 1888
- At its height in 1927, about 1 in 1,100 boys
- 228 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Spanish | Salvador |
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Where this comes from
- Parish baptism registers
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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