Saul
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #14,179 · #557 for boys in 2025, 535 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 1,045 births
- Debut · boys
- 15 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 43,288since 1880
Saul over time
Rank among boys' names. Saul has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #557 | 535 | |
| 2024 | — | #559 | 531 | |
| 2023 | — | #568 | 515 | |
| 2022 | — | #512 | 581 | |
| 2021 | — | #556 | 513 | |
| 2020 | — | #575 | 484 | |
| 2019 | — | #532 | 538 | |
| 2018 | — | #531 | 534 | |
| 2017 | — | #484 | 605 | |
| 2016 | — | #526 | 560 | |
| 2015 | — | #494 | 592 | |
| 2014 | — | #449 | 664 | |
| 2013 | — | #438 | 656 | |
| 2012 | — | #414 | 690 | |
| 2011 | — | #399 | 715 | |
| 2010 | — | #379 | 761 | |
| 2009 | — | #356 | 867 | |
| 2008 | — | #329 | 999 | |
| 2007 | — | #308 | 1,070 | |
| 2006 | — | #298 | 1,120 | |
| 2005 | — | #295 | 1,113 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #289 | 1,104 |
| 2003 | — | #291 | 1,072 | |
| 2002 | — | #289 | 1,028 | |
| 2001 | — | #278 | 1,103 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #286 | 1,059 |
| 1999 | — | #318 | 891 | |
| 1998 | — | #307 | 916 | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #270 | 1,045 |
| 1996 | — | #306 | 869 | |
| 1995 | — | #345 | 713 | |
| 1994 | — | #389 | 598 | |
| 1993 | — | #398 | 580 | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #375 | 616 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #381 | 593 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #409 | 567 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #408 | 522 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #432 | 435 |
| 1987 | — | #422 | 429 | |
| 1986 | — | #424 | 411 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #426 | 408 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #419 | 389 |
| 1983 | — | #421 | 380 | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #447 | 361 |
| 1981 | — | #401 | 411 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #431 | 363 |
| 1979 | — | #426 | 351 | |
| 1978 | — | #478 | 291 | |
| 1977 | — | #444 | 323 | |
| 1976 | — | #455 | 295 | |
| 1975 | — | #479 | 279 | |
| 1974 | — | #491 | 267 | |
| 1973 | — | #492 | 250 | |
| 1972 | — | #506 | 244 | |
| 1971 | — | #597 | 193 | |
| 1970 | — | #550 | 219 | |
| 1969 | — | #563 | 193 | |
| 1968 | — | #603 | 159 | |
| 1967 | — | #596 | 159 | |
| 1966 | — | #635 | 135 | |
| 1965 | — | #589 | 167 | |
| 1964 | — | #695 | 123 | |
| 1963 | — | #655 | 142 | |
| 1962 | — | #646 | 144 | |
| 1961 | — | #610 | 168 | |
| 1960 | — | #691 | 129 | |
| 1959 | — | #657 | 137 | |
| 1958 | — | #619 | 154 | |
| 1957 | — | #654 | 138 | |
| 1956 | — | #688 | 115 | |
| 1955 | — | #672 | 118 | |
| 1954 | — | #659 | 121 | |
| 1953 | — | #656 | 117 | |
| 1952 | — | #688 | 103 | |
| 1951 | — | #635 | 123 | |
| 1950 | — | #648 | 115 | |
| 1949 | — | #676 | 103 | |
| 1948 | — | #663 | 104 | |
| 1947 | — | #651 | 112 | |
| 1946 | — | #638 | 101 | |
| 1945 | — | #654 | 85 | |
| 1944 | — | #702 | 78 | |
| 1943 | — | #647 | 97 | |
| 1942 | — | #609 | 107 | |
| 1941 | — | #609 | 97 | |
| 1940 | — | #635 | 88 | |
| 1939 | — | #579 | 98 | |
| 1938 | — | #522 | 123 | |
| 1937 | — | #547 | 113 | |
| 1936 | — | #514 | 120 | |
| 1935 | — | #551 | 109 | |
| 1934 | — | #508 | 130 | |
| 1933 | — | #490 | 131 | |
| 1932 | — | #528 | 122 | |
| 1931 | — | #487 | 138 | |
| 1930 | — | #485 | 149 | |
| 1929 | — | #470 | 156 | |
| 1928 | — | #450 | 179 | |
| 1927 | — | #445 | 189 | |
| 1926 | — | #439 | 189 | |
| 1925 | — | #418 | 206 | |
| 1924 | — | #419 | 213 | |
| 1923 | — | #397 | 225 | |
| 1922 | — | #420 | 204 | |
| 1921 | — | #403 | 229 | |
| 1920 | — | #413 | 206 | |
| 1919 | — | #381 | 232 | |
| 1918 | — | #387 | 239 | |
| 1917 | — | #372 | 228 | |
| 1916 | — | #365 | 222 | |
| 1915 | — | #374 | 207 | |
| 1914 | — | #371 | 162 | |
| 1913 | — | #337 | 148 | |
| 1912 | — | #340 | 125 | |
| 1911 | — | #368 | 57 | |
| 1910 | — | #415 | 42 | |
| 1909 | — | #371 | 41 | |
| 1908 | — | #400 | 35 | |
| 1907 | — | #375 | 36 | |
| 1906 | — | #547 | 18 | |
| 1905 | — | #699 | 12 | |
| 1904 | — | #409 | 26 | |
| 1903 | — | #527 | 17 | |
| 1902 | — | #415 | 24 | |
| 1901 | — | #559 | 13 | |
| 1900 | — | #477 | 23 | |
| 1899 | — | #457 | 17 | |
| 1898 | — | #663 | 11 | |
| 1897 | — | #652 | 11 | |
| 1896 | — | #674 | 11 | |
| 1895 | — | #579 | 13 | |
| 1894 | — | #502 | 16 | |
| 1893 | — | #705 | 9 | |
| 1892 | — | #641 | 11 | |
| 1891 | — | #635 | 9 | |
| 1890 | — | #814 | 7 | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #416 | 20 | |
| 1887 | — | #544 | 11 | |
| 1886 | — | #605 | 10 | |
| 1885 | — | #577 | 11 | |
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | #892 | 5 | |
| 1882 | — | #469 | 15 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | #465 | 15 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Saul was already there! It came in at #465, and was given to 15 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Saul
- 2 spots since 2024 (#559 → #557)
- 18 spots since 2020 (#575 → #557)
- 63 spots since 2015 (#494 → #557)
- Biggest jump: 206 spots in 1899 (#663 → #457)
- Biggest drop: 423 spots in 1883 (#469 → #892)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1997 at #270 (1,045 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 143 yrs · run 1890–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,761 boys born in 2001 were named Saul (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,193 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #270 in 1997, was only 1 in 1,804 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all boys named Saul (10,535) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 87 | #416 (1888) | #567 |
| 1890s | 115 | #457 (1899) | #632 |
| 1900s | 245 | #371 (1909) | #478 |
| 1910s | 1,662 | #337 (1913) | #371 |
| 1920s | 1,996 | #397 (1923) | #427 |
| 1930s | 1,233 | #485 (1930) | #521 |
| 1940s | 972 | #609 (1942) | #648 |
| 1950s | 1,241 | #619 (1958) | #658 |
| 1960s | 1,519 | #563 (1969) | #628 |
| 1970s | 2,712 | #426 (1979) | #492 |
| 1980s | 4,109 | #401 (1981) | #423 |
| 1990s | 7,388 | #270 (1997) | #350 |
| 2000s | 10,535 | #278 (2001) | #302 |
| 2010s | 6,315 | #379 (2010) | #465 |
| 2020s | 3,159 | #512 (2022) | #555 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Saul in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 356,171 of them was named Saul, which outranked 15.0% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,085 names at #11,798; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 4,401 of them was named Saul, which outranked 94.9% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).