The baby name Sallust is a Boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SAL-əst.
Sallust is Latin in Origin.
The baby name Sallust is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SAL-əst.
Sallust is Latin in Origin.
Sallust is the English form of the Roman nomen Sallustius, attested in Latin as a hereditary family name rather than a personal name. Its ultimate root is uncertain; ancient sources give no explanation, and links with Latin salus, genitive salutis, safety or welfare, are phonologically insecure. Sallustius contains the gentilic ending -ius attached to an opaque stem Sallust-, so no reliable literal meaning can be assigned.
The name is chiefly associated with Gaius Sallustius Crispus, the 1st-century BC Roman politician and historian usually called Sallust in English, whose Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Jugurthinum survived as school texts in late antiquity and medieval Latin education. The family was linked with Amiternum in Sabine country, though its nomen belonged to Roman civic naming. Equivalent forms include Latin Sallustius, Italian Sallustio, Spanish and Portuguese Salustio, and French Salluste; modern given-name use is rare.
Sallust is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Sallust appears only 1 time in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.
| Sallust Sallust was a Roman historian and politician best known for his accounts of the late Roman Republic. He is especially famous for The Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jugurthine War. |
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,236 | 1 | 25,928 |
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