girls:
74 births since 1980
#5642 (1st percentile)
boys:
42.2k births since 1880
#545 (88th percentile)
overall:
42.3k births since 1880
#1201 (84th percentile)
The name Saul is the #1,201 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 42,294 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #545 (88.1% percentile) for all time with 42,220 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,642 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 74 births since 1980.
Saul has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1980 for girls). Birth data for Saul is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for boys and 12 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 Saul has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Saul reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 67.5% percentile (ranked #284) with 523 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 533 births per million (ranked 67.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Saul ranks #489 for boys (46.4% percentile) with 281 births per million, which is 52.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Saul reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saul".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Saul. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Saul is pronounced as sawl, which has 1 syllables.
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