Meaning not yet researched.
Sal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #702 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #702 in 1958; #6,735 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,735 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #702.
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Sal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #702 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 114 (1958).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Sal, making it the 6,735th most common boys’ name of the year, up 455 places from #7,190 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 12 boys named Sal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #702, reached in 1958. That year also had the most boys given the name: 114. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,337 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sal in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 8 babies. In all, 3,663 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 759 babies named Sal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 105 US boys were named Sal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sally (205,876 babies since 1880), Salvatore (57,445 babies since 1880), Salma (10,316 babies since 1880) and Salome (5,624 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Salwa and Zale are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Salwa (883), Zale (188).
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 Sal in the open dataset we use.
Sal is listed as a nickname for Salvador, Solomon.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 13 | #6,735 |
| 2024 | — | — | 12 | #7,190 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,804 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,664 |
| 2021 | — | — | 15 | #5,980 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,606 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,608 |
| 2018 | — | — | 7 | #10,545 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,961 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,744 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,462 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #13,704 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #13,966 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,513 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,707 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,234 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #14,019 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,387 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,236 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,439 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,823 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #5,093 |
| 2001 | — | — | 23 | #3,701 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,737 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,266 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,827 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,220 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,650 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,172 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,926 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,229 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,452 |
| 1991 | — | — | 26 | #2,671 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,421 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,184 |
| 1988 | — | — | 28 | #2,239 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,542 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,986 |
| 1985 | — | — | 29 | #2,006 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,416 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #3,047 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,686 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,191 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,704 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,877 |
| 1978 | — | — | 28 | #1,861 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,542 |
| 1976 | — | — | 29 | #1,775 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,192 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,785 |
| 1973 | — | — | 32 | #1,544 |
| 1972 | — | — | 49 | #1,175 |
| 1971 | — | — | 52 | #1,145 |
| 1970 | — | — | 56 | #1,100 |
| 1969 | — | — | 54 | #1,062 |
| 1968 | — | — | 54 | #1,014 |
| 1967 | — | — | 58 | #953 |
| 1966 | — | — | 62 | #931 |
| 1965 | — | — | 62 | #941 |
| 1964 | — | — | 68 | #926 |
| 1963 | — | — | 97 | #776 |
| 1962 | — | — | 103 | #757 |
| 1961 | — | — | 97 | #779 |
| 1960 | — | — | 104 | #757 |
| 1959 | — | — | 107 | #741 |
| 1958 | — | — | 114 | #702 |
| 1957 | — | — | 90 | #793 |
| 1956 | — | — | 51 | #1,066 |
| 1955 | — | — | 33 | #1,336 |
| 1954 | — | — | 19 | #1,814 |
| 1953 | — | — | 28 | #1,452 |
| 1952 | — | — | 32 | #1,343 |
| 1951 | — | — | 27 | #1,450 |
| 1950 | — | — | 30 | #1,337 |
| 1949 | — | — | 40 | #1,125 |
| 1948 | — | — | 44 | #1,071 |
| 1947 | — | — | 64 | #874 |
| 1946 | — | — | 56 | #889 |
| 1945 | — | — | 58 | #827 |
| 1944 | — | — | 45 | #973 |
| 1943 | — | — | 62 | #845 |
| 1942 | — | — | 58 | #866 |
| 1941 | — | — | 51 | #895 |
| 1940 | — | — | 51 | #888 |
| 1939 | — | — | 43 | #970 |
| 1938 | — | — | 39 | #1,040 |
| 1937 | — | — | 52 | #854 |
| 1936 | — | — | 50 | #869 |
| 1935 | — | — | 49 | #912 |
| 1934 | — | — | 33 | #1,170 |
| 1933 | — | — | 37 | #1,090 |
| 1932 | — | — | 44 | #1,002 |
| 1931 | — | — | 39 | #1,097 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,743 |
| 1929 | — | — | 32 | #1,264 |
| 1928 | — | — | 24 | #1,560 |
| 1927 | — | — | 34 | #1,263 |
| 1926 | — | — | 25 | #1,506 |
| 1925 | — | — | 34 | #1,243 |
| 1924 | — | — | 28 | #1,449 |
| 1923 | — | — | 29 | #1,379 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #2,020 |
| 1921 | — | — | 21 | #1,755 |
| 1920 | — | — | 30 | #1,345 |
| 1919 | — | — | 26 | #1,443 |
| 1918 | — | — | 22 | #1,641 |
| 1917 | — | — | 22 | #1,575 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,133 |
| 1915 | — | — | 21 | #1,545 |
| 1914 | — | — | 16 | #1,596 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,658 |
| 1912 | — | — | 15 | #1,257 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,181 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,141 |
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).