The baby name Saulius is a Boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SOW-lyus.
Saulius is Lithuanian, Proto-Baltic in Origin.
The baby name Saulius is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SOW-lyus.
Saulius is Lithuanian, Proto-Baltic in Origin.
Saulius is a Lithuanian masculine formation from saulė, the ordinary Lithuanian word for the sun. Its deeper ancestry is Baltic: Proto-Baltic *saulē, continuing Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ or *séh₂ul, the solar noun seen across Indo-European languages. The name adds the Lithuanian masculine ending -ius to the stem saul-, so its literal sense is sun or one associated with the sun rather than a Hebrew form of Saul.
In Lithuania the name belongs to a class of modern native names drawn from natural vocabulary, alongside older Christian and Slavic-influenced naming stock. It also recalls Saulė, the feminine noun and Baltic solar deity recorded in Lithuanian and Latvian tradition. Saulius became especially familiar in twentieth-century Lithuania; bearers include politician Saulius Skvernelis and actor-director Saulius Mykolaitis. Related forms include feminine Saulė and Latvian Saule, while diaspora use remains chiefly Lithuanian.
| Saulius Skvernelis Saulius Skvernelis is best known as a Lithuanian politician who served as prime minister of Lithuania from 2016 to 2020. Before that, he was Lithuania’s police commissioner and later Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016. |
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT | Boys | 0 | #7 | 1,092 | 2,166 |
| LT | 0 | #28 | 78 | 949 | |
| Norway | Boys | 1989 | #144 | 5 | 548 |
| MT | Boys | 0 | #176 | 4 | 4,064 |
| LT | Girls | 0 | #192 | 9 | 1,904 |
| LU | Boys | 0 | #220 | 1 | 4,970 |
| JP | Boys | 0 | #303 | 1 | 7,909 |
| DK | Boys | 0 | #326 | 7 | 7,401 |
| PT | Boys | 0 | #381 | 1 | 7,951 |
| RU | Boys | 0 | #523 | 4 | 12,621 |
| HK | Boys | 0 | #557 | 1 | 12,905 |
| PS | Boys | 0 | #560 | 2 | 10,655 |
| IL | Boys | 0 | #624 | 2 | 10,983 |
| Spain | Boys | 0 | #910 | 21 | 5,610 |
| NL | Boys | 0 | #935 | 17 | 5,873 |
| Germany | Boys | 0 | #939 | 14 | 5,697 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,143 | 1 | 22,615 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,182 | 1 | 25,439 |
| TR | 0 | #1,254 | 1 | 19,440 |
Saulius is popular in 17 countries — most recent births per country:
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