Saviour
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries
/saviouɾ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Saviour is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 161as Javier
- ECEcuador1 in 430as Javier
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Saviour itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)
309,708 named Javier
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Javier in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saviour counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 309,708as Javier | 1 in 161 | 310K | Javier | 2 |
| US United States | 158,810as Javier | 1 in 2.1K | 158K | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | 39,296as Javier | 1 in 430 | 39K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 10,022as Javier | 1 in 509 | 10K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 1,946as Javier | 1 in 109K | 1.9K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 1,334as Javier | 1 in 7.6K | 1.3K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 178 | — | — |
309,708 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Saviour is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, British and Canada spelling of savior.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Saviour Pirottab. 1958GBMaltese-born British children's writer
- Saviour Kasukuwereb. 1970ZWMember of the Pan African Parliament and Minister in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe
- Saviour Ramosb. 1999PHFilipino actor
- Saviour Nwaforb. 2002NGNigerian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #80,439 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Saviour?
- In Swahili /saviouɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Saviour a male or female name?
- Saviour is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Saviour have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 310 thousand people named Javier, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Saviour most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saviour is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 3.5 million people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saviour?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Saviour, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Saviour?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saviourThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saviour”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.