Saul Boy Name

Baby Boy Names > Starting With S > Saul

The name Saul is of Hebrew origin, and means asked for. The table below indicates the number of times the name Saul has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Saul**
Use of the Name Saul for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
28,553	21,681	16,799	9,760	5,331	2,148	1,081

The table below indicates the number of times the name Saul has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Saul**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	476	15
1881
1882	486	15
1883
1884
1885	602	11
1886	638	10
1887	578	11
1888	428	20
1889
1890	870	7
1891	692	9
1892	680	11
1893	761	9
1894	517	16
1895	605	13
1896	716	11
1897	675	11
1898	698	11
1899	476	17
1900	491	23
1901	589	13
1902	424	24
1903	547	17
1904	415	26
1905	734	12
1906	562	18
1907	380	36
1908	402	35
1909	382	40
1910	419	42
1911	371	57
1912	340	125
1913	339	148
1914	371	163
1915	374	207
1916	368	221
1917	374	227
1918	385	241
1919	386	232
1920	415	204
1921	403	229
1922	417	208
1923	401	223
1924	420	212
1925	419	206
1926	439	191
1927	447	187
1928	447	180
1929	472	155
1930	483	152
1931	488	138
1932	542	118
1933	490	131
1934	507	131
1935	554	108
1936	520	119
1937	547	114
1938	525	123
1939	580	99
1940	646	87
1941	611	97
1942	610	107
1943	654	96
1944	705	78
1945	663	83
1946	634	103
1947	662	108
1948	669	102
1949	675	103
1950	658	113
1951	633	124
1952	689	103
1953	660	115
1954	660	121
1955	667	120
1956	699	111
1957	650	140
1958	628	149
1959	660	136
1960	699	127
1961	607	171
1962	646	144
1963	652	146
1964	696	123
1965	589	167
1966	640	135
1967	596	160
1968	603	159
1969	564	193
1970	548	220
1971	602	191
1972	503	245
1973	495	247
1974	491	266
1975	479	278
1976	458	295
1977	447	319
1978	479	290
1979	428	350
1980	432	361
1981	401	411
1982	448	360
1983	421	380
1984	421	385
1985	426	406
1986	423	412
1987	425	424
1988	432	433
1989	409	520
1990	408	566
1991	383	589
1992	375	616
1993	400	578
1994	389	598
1995	345	713
1996	304	869
1997	270	1,042
1998	308	914
1999	318	891
2000	286	1,057
2001	278	1,100
2002	289	1,026
2003	291	1,067
2004	290	1,081
Totals:		28,553		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Saul as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Saul appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 121 times during the last 125 years.

Baby-Boy-Names.org is a Chosen Sites™ family reference source.
All information on this baby name website is provided "as is."

Saul Boy Name

Baby Boy Names > Starting With S > Saul

Boy Name Saul