Savior
Savior was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,901 among boys’ names; 773 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Savior by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Savior mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Savior is “a male given name from English.”
Also “a female given name from English.”
From savior. Doublet of Salvador.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Savior?
#1,901 among boys’ names, 2025
Savior rose from #3,859 in 2015 to #1,901 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 48.6 per million.
100 babies in 2024, the peak
Savior peaked in 2024, when 100 babies were given it (93 boys, #1,773 among boys’ names). The 83 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,901 | 48.6 |
| 2024 | 93 | #1,773 | 54.0 |
| 2023 | 77 | #1,997 | 45.0 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,988 | 24.1 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,727 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,191 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,040 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,093 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,868 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,001 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,859 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,669 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,435 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,675 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,155 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,686 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,407 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,110 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,393 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,893 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,992 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,436 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,424 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,207 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,410 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,961 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,994 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,007 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Savior a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 773 Americans recorded as Savior, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 83 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Savior: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Savior, and how old are they?
An estimated 766 Americans named Savior and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 358 people named Savior (41 women and girls, 317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,361 babies since 1880, Savior is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 127 babies (65%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Savior
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Savior and names like it
- Compare Savior and SavierBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSavior peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Savior since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Savior: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Savior.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Savior alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.