Salvador
From Latin, meaning "saviour". Most Poles have never met one, but the register logged more newborn boys last year than in years past: a small name inching upward.
Salvador Pronunciation
What Salvador means
Where Salvador comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Salvador comes from the Latin salvator, an agent noun built on the verb salvare, to save. The early Church used salvator as a title for Christ, the Saviour, and Spanish speakers later took that title and made it a first name. The short meaning in Polish is zbawiciel.
No diminutive softened it. The name kept its full three syllables in Spanish use, and it traveled with them. Salvador Dalí, the surrealist painter who died in 1989, is the bearer most readers will know. The Brazilian city of Salvador, founded in 1549 as São Salvador da Bahia, took the same Latin root for the Holy Saviour.
In a Polish class register the name reads as foreign. It marks a child out at once. Behind the Spanish sits one Latin word for the one who saves.
How many people are named Salvador
1 in 190591 men in Poland is named Salvador. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3221 among male names.
Salvador's popularity over time
6 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #892 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where parents choose Salvador
Salvador is most popular in Pomeranian, 487% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+266%).
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Pomeranian
+487%1 in 73,661 babies
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Masovian
+266%1 in 118,088 babies
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Pomeranian+487% 2 born1 in 73,661 babies+487%
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Masovian+266% 3 born1 in 118,088 babies+266%
Salvador as a middle name
Salvador is a first name for 112 men in Poland and a middle name for another 98, a 53/47 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 720th, between Guy (98) and Constantin (97).
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#718 Dean98
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#719 Guy98
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#720 Salvador98
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#721 Constantin97
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#722 Islam97