The Sauls surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,490 people carried this name — #5,364 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 45,500 people counted. That is up 4% from 6,227 in 2000.

Look up another surname

Share

In print

Sauls in American newspapers,
1908–1914.

Newspaper page from Luxemburger Gazette carrying the name Sauls
Luxemburger Gazette 1914-05-26
Newspaper page from The Semi-weekly Leader carrying the name Sauls
The Semi-weekly Leader 1908-02-26

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 274,549 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Sauls in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1970s.

93 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sauls. The most, 19, date from the 1900s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 1.6 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 47
Queensland 13
Victoria 13
South Australia 7
Tasmania 6
Western Australia 5
ACT (Canberra) 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sauls.

In the public record

People named Sauls,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States342 records

342 records of the Sauls name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 243
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 68
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 11
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 6
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 5
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 4
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 4
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Lawrence D. Sauls

    Born 1921 in Tennessee. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; upholsterer. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1955, buried at Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, Tennessee.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Robert Ned Sauls

    Born 1941; from Atlanta, Georgia. U.S. Army; died of wounds 1969 in South Vietnam. Buried at San Francisco National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Mary Sauls

    Arrived at New York in 1850 aboard the Hercules from Liverpool, aged 45; laborer. From Great Britain.

    U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain)

Showing 3 of 342 records for Sauls in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Netherlands2 records

2 records of the Sauls name in the Netherlands
  • Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 1
  • Dutch church registers before 1811 1
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Joanna Sauls

    Married in 1827 in Bergh; farm maid.

    Open Archives, Gelders Archief (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Civil record Geertruij Sauls

    Baptised in 1758 in Arnhem.

    Open Archives, Gelders Archief (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

Australia1 record

1 record of the Sauls name in Australia NSW convict, estate and railway indexes
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Annie Sauls

    Of Alexandria, New South Wales; died 1921.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)

Counts: Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Sauls.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Sauls is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

See the Sauls volume
Scroll to Top