Salvatore
The Italian name wears its Latin root on the surface: salvator, "savior". In Poland it stays foreign, carried by around 300 men and given to no newborns in recent years.
Salvatore Pronunciation
What Salvatore means
Where Salvatore comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Salvatore comes straight from Latin, from salvator, which meant savior, one who keeps a person from harm. The early Church took that word as a title for Christ, and Catholic Italy later turned it into a name for boys. The meaning sits right on the surface.
No diminutives are recorded for it, no cross-gender form. The name stands on its own. Italians mark it on August 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, when churches dedicated to San Salvatore hold their patronal day.
Real men have carried it. Salvatore Quasimodo, the Sicilian poet, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959. Salvatore Ferragamo built a shoe house that still bears his first name. Each one answered to the same plain Latin sense: savior.
How many people are named Salvatore
1 in 71873 men in Poland is named Salvatore. 297 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1755 among male names.
Salvatore's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Salvatore as a middle name
Salvatore is a first name for 297 men in Poland and a middle name for another 95, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 735th, between Paulin (95) and Theodore (95).
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#733 Marcjan95
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#734 Paulin95
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#735 Salvatore95
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#736 Theodore95
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#737 Valentino95