Saul

Where Saul comes from

Borrowed from Old English Saul. Doublet of Silas, which derived from Aramaic.
— Wiktionary's entry for Saul
  • Hebrew
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #465 among boys — 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1915
    Saul Bellow born
    Canadian-American writer
  3. 1940
    Saul Kripke born
    American philosopher and logician
  4. 1997
    Peak, #270
    1,045 babies named Saul — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #575.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Saul Bellow · Canadian-American writer, 1915–2005
  • Saul Kripke · American philosopher and logician, 1940–2022
  • Saul Zaentz · American film producer and record company executive, 1921–2014
  • Saul Steinberg · Romanian-American cartoonist, 1914–1999
  • Saul Nanni · Italian actor, born 1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.