In 2025, 249 US boys were named Salvatore, making it the 945th most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #903 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 260 boys named Salvatore in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #148, reached in 1915. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,058, in 1927. For comparison, it was #964 in 2015 and #263 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Salvatore in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 57,445 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 9,892 babies named Salvatore.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,472 US boys were named Salvatore; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 269. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,860 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Salvatore ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #234 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Salvador (49,788 babies since 1880) and Sal (3,663 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Salvator and Salvotore are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.