Salwator
Fewer than two dozen Poles carry this name, and it lands on a newborn maybe once a decade. From Latin, it means savior or deliverer.
Salwator Pronunciation
Salwator is pronounced sahl-VAH-tor (/salˈvatɔr/).
What Salwator means
Where Salwator comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Salwator descends from the Latin salvator, meaning savior or deliverer. Its root is the verb salvare, to save, tied to salus, the Latin word for health and safety. The same stem reaches English through salvation and salvage. In Church Latin, Salvator was a title for Christ. Polish holds the sense plainly: zbawiciel, wybawiciel.
The name means more than religious vocabulary. In Kraków there is a district called Salwator, named for the church of Najświętszego Salwatora, one of the oldest in the city, with records reaching back to the mid-12th century. A tram loop still carries the name Salwator. The word lives on a map as well as in liturgy.
Salwator is rare in Poland today. A boy with this name would stand out in a class register, the only Salwator among the Jakubs and Szymons. The meaning sits close to the surface: savior, deliverer, zbawiciel.
When Salwator celebrates name day
Salwator appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 18 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Salwator
1 in 970281 men in Poland is named Salwator. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9435 among male names.
Salwator's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Salwator as a middle name
Salwator is a first name for 22 men in Poland and a middle name for another 21, a 51/49 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1945th, between Rubén (21) and Samet (21).
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#1943 Rhys21
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#1944 Rubén21
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#1945 Salwator21
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#1946 Samet21
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#1947 Seán21