Recorded 1888–2025 · United States
Salvatore was most popular in 1927, when 1,064 American babies were given the name — ranking #343 that year. In 2025 it ranked #1,922, with 249 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 57,445 people named Salvatore.
Salvatore first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1888, which makes it about 137 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 136 of the 138 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 57,445 American births named Salvatore between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 28,848 are estimated to be alive today.
249 American babies were named Salvatore in 2025, ranking #1,922 that year.
Salvatore is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 254 births a year, against 232 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +9% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Salvatore is a boy’s name — 0.1% of the 57,445 Americans given it were girls and 99.9% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 28,848 Americans named Salvatore are alive today — 50% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 29 and 68. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org