Where the spelling 살바도르 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 살바도르 for Salvador.
Wiktionary records Salvador as a name from Spanish, so it is read as a name in Spanish.
People in the list with this given name:
- 산체스세렌, 살바도르 — Sánchez-Cerén, Salvador
Sound by sound
sal살va바do도r르
Why it is spelled this way
- This looks like a name in Spanish, so the official Spanish spelling is shown first.
- Matches the National Institute of Korean Language usage list.
- l is final ㄹ before a consonant or at the end, ㄹㄹ before a vowel (Ch.3 Sec.4 Art.5).
What Salvador means
Salvador by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 1,057, 14,539 babies (0% girls, 100% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 살바도르: 1.
Korean names for Salvador
These are the converter’s results for Salvador as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
김산Kim SanBoy’s name · 67% sound match
김산하Kim SanhaBoy’s name · 65% sound match
김시안Kim SianBoy’s name · 48% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics