How popular is the baby name Salvador in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Salvador.
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Eight thieves — six men and two women — all dressed in red jumpsuits, all donning Salvador Dalí masks — break into the Royal Mint of Spain (in Madrid) with the aim of printing 2.4 billion in Euros over 11 days, then making a clean getaway.
That’s what happens at the start of the Spanish-language crime drama series Money Heist, which became a worldwide hit in 2018, thanks to Netflix.
Upon the success of the first two seasons of the show (which had originally aired on Spanish TV in 2017), Netflix renewed Money Heist — producing and releasing three more seasons over the next three years.
Impressively, Money Heist: Part 3, Money Heist: Part 4, and Money Heist: Part 5 currently rank 5th, 3rd, and 2nd (respectively) on Netflix’s list of most popular non-English TV series of all time.
So…what does this have to do with U.S. baby names?
The eight robbers of “Money Heist”
Well, to maintain their anonymity, the eight thieves went by city-inspired code-names: Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Nairobi, Rio, Denver, Helsinki, and Oslo.
While Moscow and Helsinki have never appeared in the U.S. baby name data, the six other city names have — and each one saw higher usage after Money Heist premiered on Netflix.
Let’s start with the biggest boosts…
Nairobi
(female character, played by Alba Flores)
Female usage of the baby name Nairobi began accelerating in 2018. (That massive jump in 2020 corresponds to a tragic Part 4 plot-twist.) Right now, the name is sitting just outside the girls’ top 1,000.
2021: 241 baby girls named Nairobi [rank: 1,044th]
2020: 215 baby girls named Nairobi
2019: 65 baby girls named Nairobi
2018: 37 baby girls named Nairobi
2017: 23 baby girls named Nairobi
2016: 21 baby girls named Nairobi
Usage of the baby name Nairobi
Rio
(male character, played by Miguel Herrán)
Male usage of the baby name Rio has risen significantly since 2018:
2021: 396 baby boys named Rio [rank: 672nd]
2020: 303 baby boys named Rio [rank: 776th]
2019: 193 baby boys named Rio
2018: 171 baby boys named Rio
2017: 132 baby boys named Rio
2016: 134 baby boys named Rio
Usage of the baby name Rio
Denver
(male character played by Jaime Lorente)
The baby name Denver, which was already on the rise for boys, began rising even faster in 2018:
2021: 577 baby boys named Denver [rank: 505th]
2020: 540 baby boys named Denver [rank: 526th]
2019: 422 baby boys named Denver [rank: 638th]
2018: 370 baby boys named Denver [rank: 674th]
2017: 273 baby boys named Denver [rank: 821st]
2016: 268 baby boys named Denver [rank: 840th]
Usage of the baby name Denver
Oslo
(male character, played by Roberto García Ruiz)
Male usage of the baby name Oslo has been rising steadily since 2018:
2021: 49 baby boys named Olso
2020: 38 baby boys named Olso
2019: 29 baby boys named Olso
2018: 22 baby boys named Olso
2017: 14 baby boys named Olso
2016: 12 baby boys named Olso
Usage of the baby name Oslo
Tokyo
(female character, played by Úrsula Corberó)
The baby name Tokyo, which had appeared in the data as a boy name a couple of times, finally debuted as a girl name in 2019:
2021: 10 baby girls named Tokyo
2020: 15 baby girls named Tokyo [peak usage]
2019: 7 baby girls named Tokyo [gender-specific debut]
2018: unlisted
2017: unlisted
2016: unlisted
Berlin
(male character, played by Pedro Alonso)
Male usage of the baby name Berlin increased slightly in 2019 and 2020:
2021: 26 baby boys named Berlin
2020: 29 baby boys named Berlin
2019: 17 baby boys named Berlin
2018: 11 baby boys named Berlin
2017: 9 baby boys named Berlin
2016: 5 baby boys named Berlin
Which of the above names to you like best? What other city names do you think work well as human names?
P.S. Why were city names used as code-names on Money Heist? Álex Pina, the show’s creator, explained during an interview in 2018 that he’d been trying to come up with a theme for the code-names when, “one day, someone turned up with a T-shirt bearing the word Tokyo and that’s how it all began.”
According to Uruguay’s Dirección Nacional de Identificación Civil (DNIC), the most popular baby names in the country in 2020 were technically Emma and Juan.
But if accented “María” and unaccented “Maria” had been counted together, María would have easily taken the #1 spot.
Uruguay’s baby name rankings consist of girl and boy names mixed together on a single list. The data mostly represents first-name usage, but does include some second-name usage as well. (This is because the rankings are created from Uruguayan identity card data, and Uruguayans are permitted to add up to two given names to their ID cards.)
That said, here are Uruguay’s top 100+ baby names of 2020:
Juan, 861 babies
Emma, 682
Mateo, 611
María, 564
Julieta, 495
Martina, 477
Felipe, 460
Lorenzo, 408
Isabella, 400
Catalina, 383
Maria, 378
Sofía, 372
Emilia, 358
Thiago, 354
Santino, 347
Lucas, 334
Dante, 330
Lautaro, 327
Delfina, 320
Benjamín, 315
Bautista, 312 (tie)
Santiago, 312 (tie)
Olivia, 310
Joaquín, 259
Zoe, 249
Emily, 236 (tie)
Paulina, 236 (tie)
Francisco, 235
Renata, 233
Francesca, 227
Bruno, 222 (tie)
Luis, 222 (tie)
Carlos, 220 (tie)
Clara, 220 (tie)
Facundo, 215
Emiliano, 211
Valentino, 209
Ana, 208
Mía, 203
Valentina, 199
Josefina, 194 (3-way tie)
Juana, 194 (3-way tie)
Maite, 194 (3-way tie)
Agustina, 192 (tie)
Tomás, 192 (tie)
Luciano, 188
Alfonsina, 186 (tie)
Bastian, 186 (tie)
Enzo, 184
Dylan, 182
Agustín, 180
Nahitan, 175
Jorge, 172
Bianca, 170
Valentín, 167
Liam, 164
Mia, 161
José, 160
Renzo, 159
Franco, 155 (tie)
Manuel, 155 (tie)
Benicio, 154
Ian, 152
Ignacio, 150
Camila, 149
Victoria, 148
Diego, 143
Oriana, 142
Pedro, 140
Milagros, 137
Alma, 131 (tie)
Pilar, 131 (tie)
Camilo, 129 (3-way tie)
Guillermo, 129 (3-way tie)
Vicente, 129 (3-way tie)
Noah, 128
Ciro, 127 (tie)
Julia, 127 (tie)
Salvador, 126
Alfonso, 125
Ramiro, 124
Daniel, 120
Máximo, 117
Faustino, 115
Jose, 114
Samuel, 113
Faustina, 111
Alejandro, 110
Federico, 109
Genaro, 107
Maia, 106 (tie)
Pablo, 106 (tie)
Lara, 105
Sofia, 103
Guillermina, 102
Ámbar, 100
Eduardo, 99
Lucía, 98
Federica, 96 (tie)
Tadeo, 96 (tie)
Theo (95)
Luciana, 94 (tie)
Sara, 94 (tie)
Tiziano, 92
Alexander, 91 (tie)
Rafael, 91 (tie)
Julián, 90 (3-way tie)
Luana, 90 (3-way tie)
Nicolás, 90 (3-way tie)
Benjamin, 88
Aitana, 86 (3-way tie)
Bruna, 86 (3-way tie)
Leonardo, 86 (3-way tie)
Florencia, 85
Rodrigo, 84
David, 83 (4-way tie)
Gael, 83 (4-way tie)
Joaquina, 83 (4-way tie)
Matías, 83 (4-way tie)
Miguel, 80
Gabriel, 79 (tie)
Jazmín, 79 (tie)
Alex, 78 (tie)
Axel, 78 (tie)
(I went down far enough to ensure that at least fifty girl names were included…and then a little farther, because that 2-way tie between the 4-letter anagram names Alex and Axel is kind of adorable. :)
I’ve never looked at rankings for Uruguay before, so I don’t have past rankings to compare these to. But here are a few of the names from lower down on the list:
35 babies were named Celeste, which is the nickname (El Celeste, “the sky-blue”) of Uruguay’s national soccer team.
11 were named Edinson, which is the first name of Uruguayan soccer player Edinson Cavani.
8 were named Nairobi, which is a female character from the popular Spanish-language TV series La casa de papel (English title: Money Heist).
2 were named Tabaré, which was the first name of Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez (who both left office and passed away in 2020).
The name comes from Uruguayan literature: The main character of the epic poem Tabaré (1888) by Juan Zorrilla de San Martín is an indigenous Charrúa man named Tabaré.
Finally, because Uruguay releases all of its baby name data, we can check out the unique names at the other end of the spectrum as well. Here’s a selection Uruguay’s single-use baby names of 2020:
If you’re on the hunt for baby names with a numerological value of 2, you’re in luck! Because today’s post features hundreds of 2-names.
Before we get to the names, though — how do we know that they’re “twos” in numerology?
Turning names into numbers
Here’s how to calculate the numerological value of a name.
First, for each letter, come up with a number to represent that letter’s position in the alphabet. (Letter A would be number 1, letter B would be number 2, and so forth.) Then, add all the numbers together. If the sum has two or more digits, add the digits together recursively until the result is a single digit. That single digit is the name’s numerological value.
For instance, the letters in the name Aurora correspond to the numbers 1, 21, 18, 15, 18, and 1. The sum of these numbers is 74. The digits of 74 added together equal 11, and the digits of 11 added together equal 2 — the numerological value of Aurora.
Baby names with a value of 2
Below you’ll find the most popular 2-names per gender, according to the latest U.S. baby name data. I’ve further sub-categorized them by total sums — just in case any of those larger numbers are significant to anyone.
2 via 11
The letters in the following baby names add up to 11, which reduces to two (1+1=2).
Girl names (2 via 11)
Boy names (2 via 11)
Adea, Fe, Aia
Aj, Ja, Cabe
2 via 20
The letters in the following baby names add up to 20, which reduces to two (2+0=2).
There’s no definitive answer, unfortunately, because various numerological systems exist, and each one has its own interpretation of the number two. That said, if we look at a couple of modern numerology/astrology websites, we see 2 being described as “diplomatic,” “cooperative,” “peaceful,” “gentle,” and “understanding.”
We can also look at associations, which are a bit more concrete. Here are some things that are associated with the number 2:
Hands
Feet
Eyes
Ears
Lungs
Chopsticks
Knitting needles
Complementary pairings (e.g., pen and paper, bow and arrow, peanut butter and jelly)
Dualities (e.g., day and night, yin and yang, war and peace)
Boxing (2 competitors; 2 fists)
Partner dancing
DNA double helix
What does the number 2 mean to you? What are your strongest associations with the number?
P.S. To see names with other numerological values, check out the posts for the numbers one, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
Irma Lopez Aurelio, a 28-year-old Mazatec woman who lives in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, went into labor on October 2.
She and her husband walked for an hour to get to the nearest medical clinic, located in the village of San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz. When they got there, though, they were denied help.
Two hours later, Irma gave birth on the clinic’s lawn.
A witness snapped a picture of Lopez and her baby boy seconds after birth, and the photo ended up on the front page of the newspaper La Razón de México, along with the headline “Hospital de Oaxaca obliga a indígena a dar a luz en el pasto” (Oaxaca hospital forces indigenous woman to give birth in the grass).
What did Irma decide to name her baby boy?
Lopez said she named her son Salvador, which means “Savior” in English.
“He really saved himself,” she said.
After the birth, Irma and the baby were admitted to the clinic (finally). They were released the same day.
The director of the clinic, Dr. Adrian Cruz, has since been suspended.
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