Saveli
About 142 Poles carry it, all of them men, so most people here have never met one. A Russian name at root, traced back to the Hebrew for "a Sabine".
Saveli Pronunciation
What Saveli means
Where Saveli comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Saveli is a Russian name with a Hebrew root, and its meaning leads somewhere unexpected. The short sense attached to it is "a Sabine," in Polish sabelianin, a member of an old people of central Italy. Many reference works link Saveli to the Latin Sabellius, which supplies that Sabine reading. The Hebrew origin sits underneath, older than the Roman layer set on top of it.
Saveli travels light. It has no diminutive, no variant spelling, no cross-gender twin. The name stands alone on a page.
The second Polish gloss is prosty, plain or simple. That plainness fits a name worn without decoration. Read a class register in a Polish school and Saveli falls between longer entries, brief and settled. The name means a Sabine, sabelianin, and in plain Polish, prosty.
How many people are named Saveli
1 in 150325 men in Poland is named Saveli. 142 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2753 among male names.