Savior
Masculine · “one who saves”
Savior is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 753 boys against 20 girls since 1880.
Savior is Latin for one who saves — salvator, from salvus, safe — and it was coined to translate the Hebrew name behind Jesus.
How old is the name Savior?
Savior first appears in US birth records in 1998 — 27 years ago. The typical Savior is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Savior are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Savior most popular?
Savior peaked in 2024, reaching #1767 nationally. Today it ranks #1886, 119 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From salvus to Savior
The story of Savior
Salvator was coined in Christian Latin to name Christ, and the Spanish Salvador and Italian Salvatore descend from it as ordinary given names. The English Savior is a separate and much more recent formation, appearing in the American registers from the 2000s among the devotional word-names. It is in current use.
Meaning
one who saves
From the Latin salvator, 'savior', from salvare, 'to save', and salvus, 'safe' or 'whole'. Christian Latin coined it to render the Greek soter and the sense of the Hebrew Yeshua. The same root gives salve, salvage and salutary. The etymology is documented.
How the name formed
- salvus
- salvator
- savior
- Savior
Related forms: Salvador · Salvatore · Saviour
Pronouncing Savior
SAYV-yur
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Savior
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1998
- Most boys named
- 202493 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1767reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −10.8%83 in 2025, from 93
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Savior in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Salvador in Spanish — related form
- Salvatore in Italian — related form
- Saviour in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, New York, Ohio.
Saviors among us
people named Savior are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 20,579 born in 2025 was named Savior
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Duffy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Savior's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Duffy climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Duffy's path sketches the road Savior is walking now.
Savior is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Savior is headed
Savior looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 48% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Savior beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Savior in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The salvus root, meaning safe and whole, is broader than the modern sense.
- Salvador and Salvatore are available as established related names.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It is a title of Christ and carries a very large claim.
- Salvador and Salvatore are the traditional forms and are far less loaded.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Masculine · #1886 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Saviors are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Savior are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Savior in 2025?
- Savior ranks #1886 among US boy names in 2025, with 83 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Savior?
- About 1 in every 20,579 US boys born in 2025 was named Savior — 83 in all.
- Will my child share the name Savior with classmates?
- Savior will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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