Name: Saul
Gender: Male
Usage: Saul, of hebrew origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Saul are in general originating from Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Saul is: Responded, Borrowed.
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Numerology of the first name Saul: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Saul is ranked on the 2,058th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 199200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. The name Saul has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Saul for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Saul is the given name. It is of Hebrew origin (Shaul), meaning "ask/question".
People with this given name include:
- King Saul, First King of Israel
- Saul Alinsky, American liberal political activist
- Saúl Armendáriz, Mexican professional wrestler
- Saul Bass, graphic designer whose works include credits to films like Psycho, Vertigo, Casino and West Side Story
- Saul Bellow, the 1976 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- Saul Fathi, Iraqi born Jewish author
- Saul Hudson (Slash), British-American musician, the ex-guitarist of Guns N' Roses and Slash's Snakepit, currently with Velvet Revolver
- Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician.
- Saul Landau, American scholar, author, commentator and filmmaker.
- Saul Leiter, American photographer, early user of color photography in fine art.
- Saul Milton, British musician, member of Chase & Status.
- Saul Malone, main character in the television show Saul of the Mole Men
- Saul Raisin, professional road bicycle racer with UCI ProTeam Crédit Agricole.
- Saul Rogovin, American major league baseball player
- Saul Rubinek, German-born Canadian actor and director
- Saul Shapiro, American known for public policy development on digital broadcast.
- Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator.
- Saul Stokes, American musician known for making electronic music with handmade instruments.
- Saul Williams, American poet, actor and musician
- Saul Zaentz, filmmaker and owner of Fantasy Records
- Saul, Spanish footballer playing for SD Ponferradina
- Saúl Berjón, Spanish footballer known as Saúl
- Shaul Ladany – Israeli world-record-holding racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering
Biblical: name (from a Hebrew word meaning ‘asked for’ or ‘prayed for’) of one of the first kings of Israel, and also, before his conversion, of St Paul. It was popular among the Puritans, but is now once again mainly a Jewish name.
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