The name Saul comes from the Hebrew name Sha’ul meaning ‘asked for’ or ‘prayed for’. In the Old Testament, Saul was the first king of Israel, succeeded by David.
Saul is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Saul isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Saul ranks 471. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Saul. In the entire USA, approximately 36,944 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Saul. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Saul comes from the Hebrew name Sha’ul meaning ‘asked for’ or ‘prayed for’. In the Old Testament, Saul was the first king of Israel, succeeded by David.
In the 1990s and 2000s, ... Saul was far more popular than usual. Still, it has been consistently given since the 19th century.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Saul is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Saul and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Saul, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Unicorn
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Saul
Saul
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
U
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
U
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Saul sounds like this:
