Salvatore
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Savior
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Salvatore
Salvatore is a classic Italian name meaning "savior," drawn from the Latin salvator and ultimately a name honoring Christ the Redeemer. Rich, resonant, and deeply traditional, it has been a cornerstone of Italian and Italian-American families for generations, carrying both religious devotion and a warm sense of heritage in its full, four-syllable grandeur. It is the kind of name passed down through families to honor a grandfather or patron saint.
The name's appeal lies in that combination of sacred meaning and old-world stateliness, softened by the affectionate, easygoing nickname Sal — its single recorded variant — which keeps the name approachable in everyday life. It is a choice that balances dignity with familiarity, ceremony with warmth, allowing a child both a stately full name and a friendly short one.
Salvatore first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for boys in 2000, which was also its strongest year at rank #582, and it has remained in the rankings every year since, appearing at #902 in 2024 after standing at #917 in 2023 and #883 in 2022. Across that run it has been given to roughly 6,414 boys. Its steady, decades-long presence marks Salvatore as an enduring classic — a name of faith, family, and Italian tradition that has never gone out of use.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Salvatore
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Salvatore by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 344 boys named Salvatore (boy rank #582 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #945 for boys (249 US births). That's 363 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Salvatore Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Salvatore the strongest states are New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | #281 | 631 |
| 2 | New Jersey | #286 | 286 |
| 3 | Connecticut | #321 | 81 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | #514 | 87 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | #529 | 163 |
| 6 | Michigan | #759 | 94 |
| 7 | Florida | #790 | 148 |
| 8 | Illinois | #874 | 61 |
| 9 | Ohio | #903 | 55 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio | #903 | 55 |
| 2 | Illinois | #874 | 61 |
| 3 | Florida | #790 | 148 |
| 4 | Michigan | #759 | 94 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | #529 | 163 |
| 6 | Massachusetts | #514 | 87 |
| 7 | Connecticut | #321 | 81 |
| 8 | New Jersey | #286 | 286 |
| 9 | New York | #281 | 631 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Salvatore in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sal | Savior. Diminutive Of Salvador. | Male | Spanish |
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Compare Salvatore to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Salvatore against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).