How Many People Are Named Shaul?
people named Shaul are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 478,020 people in the US has this name
Based on 730 babies named Shaul in Social Security records from 1973 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
33 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Modern Hebrew form of SAUL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Shaul in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shaul alive today is about 17 years old, and 78% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 27 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shaul first appears in the records in 1973 and was given most often in 2021, to 33 babies. In 2025, 24 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1973 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shaul has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #3,480, in 2021. In 2025 it ranked #4,367.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,367 |
| Best rank | #3,480 (2021) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #4,254 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shaul alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shaul were born in New York than in any other state: about 349 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shaul was given 13.3 times as often in New York and 6.5 times in New Jersey.
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