Meaning not yet researched.
Sailor: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 206 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,056 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,056 in 2017; #1,134 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Sailor in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,134 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,056.
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Sailor: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 206 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,056 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 245 (2016).
In 2025, 206 US girls were named Sailor, making it the 1,134th most common girls’ name of the year, up 214 places from #1,348 in 2024. That is 36 more than the 170 girls named Sailor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,056, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 245, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,094 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Sailor, making it the 3,080th most common boys’ name of the year, down 340 places from #2,740 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 48 boys named Sailor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,582, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,757 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sailor in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 4,290 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,037 babies named Sailor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,080 US girls were named Sailor; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 245. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,802 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sailor ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #267 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Saylor (15,362 babies since 1880) and Sayler (913 babies since 1880).
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sailor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #267 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #600 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #612 | #665 |
| Utah | 6 | #690 | #308 |
| Alabama | 6 | #806 | #793 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #874 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #893 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #910 | #733 |
| Georgia | 10 | #975 | #882 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,016 | #1,060 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,102 | #1,045 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,185 | #1,059 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,191 | #940 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,192 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,219 | #550 |
| California | 18 | #1,353 | #1,202 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,411 | #1,210 |
| New York | 5 | #2,371 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 206 | #1,134 | 40 | #3,080 |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,348 | 48 | #2,740 |
| 2023 | 230 | #1,079 | 30 | #3,788 |
| 2022 | 182 | #1,303 | 50 | #2,672 |
| 2021 | 213 | #1,152 | 39 | #3,111 |
| 2020 | 225 | #1,087 | 37 | #3,122 |
| 2019 | 208 | #1,156 | 45 | #2,798 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,419 | 36 | #3,221 |
| 2017 | 243 | #1,056 | 40 | #2,998 |
| 2016 | 245 | #1,066 | 49 | #2,582 |
| 2015 | 237 | #1,094 | 44 | #2,757 |
| 2014 | 200 | #1,225 | 23 | #4,372 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,595 | 25 | #4,039 |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,927 | 19 | #5,010 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,827 | 14 | #6,193 |
| 2010 | 90 | #2,184 | 12 | #7,019 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,310 | 12 | #7,154 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,478 | 23 | #4,369 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,535 | 13 | #6,544 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,773 | 15 | #5,733 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,573 | 7 | #9,941 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,386 | 13 | #6,077 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,833 | 10 | #7,146 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,931 | 14 | #5,343 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,841 | 9 | #7,406 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,809 | 9 | #6,995 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,138 | 6 | #9,428 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,529 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).