girls:
183 births since 1930
#5533 (3rd percentile)
boys:
48.9k births since 1888
#507 (89th percentile)
overall:
49.1k births since 1888
#1090 (86th percentile)
The name Salvador is the #1,090 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 49,075 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 85.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #507 (89.0% percentile) for all time with 48,892 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,533 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 183 births since 1930.
Salvador first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1930 for girls). Birth data for Salvador is available in 128 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (128 years for boys and 25 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Salvador has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Salvador reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 64.4% percentile (ranked #275) with 439 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 440 births per million (ranked 62.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Salvador ranks #565 for boys (38.0% percentile) with 206 births per million, which is 47.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Salvador reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #794) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Salvador".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Salvador. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.6% confident that Salvador is pronounced as SAL-vuh-DOR, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAL-vuh-dor, at 42.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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