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Salvador

OriginSpanish from Latin Salvator
Meaning"savior"
GenderBoy & girl
US rank · girlsUnranked

Below 5 births

US rank · boys#756

2025 SSA

About Salvador

A common epithet of Christ, frequently heard in the Hispanic community, Salvador could also be a great choice for artistic parents, given the continuing popularity of Dada and Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. (If Monet and Raphael get a look in, why not Salvador?)

Salvador is also given to girls.

Pronounced sal-vuh-DOR.

As of October 2026, Salvador ranked #17084 in US births in 2000 SSA, peaked at #3990 in 1930.

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Famous Salvadors

  • Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí (i Domènech)Boy

    1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubo, Spanish surrealist painter

  • Salvador Guillermo Allende (Gossens)Boy

    29th President of Chile

  • Salvador MinuchinBoy

    Argentine psychiatrist, founder of Structural Family Therapy

  • Salvador Edward LuriaBoy

    Italian microbiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize

  • Salvador Cabañas (Ortega)Boy

    Paraguayan footballer

  • Salvador Daniel Maida (b. 2008)Boy

    son of singer Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida

Salvador in pop culture

  • El SalvadorBoy

    country in Central America

  • SalvadorBoy

    Bahia, Brazil

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