Meaning not yet researched.
Sallie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #63 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #63 in 1882; #4,340 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sallie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,340 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #63.
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Sallie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 girls in 2025. Peak: #63 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 912 (1916).
In 2025, 33 US girls were named Sallie, making it the 4,340th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,783 places from #6,123 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 20 girls named Sallie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #63, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 912, in 1916. For comparison, it was #5,431 in 2015 and #368 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sallie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 404 babies with the name. In all, 50,096 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 7,423 babies named Sallie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 230 US girls were named Sallie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,705 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sally (205,876 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaylie, Saylee and Sahalie 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: Zaylie (879), Saylee (127), Sahalie (125), Sailee (58), Zalie (46), Saalih (23), Zailie (11), Zaelie (10).
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 Sallie in the open dataset we use.
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 | 33 | #4,340 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,123 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,710 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,949 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,132 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,286 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,375 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,436 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,639 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,825 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,431 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,289 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,978 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,514 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,456 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,383 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,116 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,670 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,470 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,095 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,055 | — | — |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,492 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,024 | — | — |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1976 | 76 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1975 | 93 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1973 | 87 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1970 | 121 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1969 | 118 | #998 | — | — |
| 1968 | 145 | #852 | — | — |
| 1967 | 137 | #870 | — | — |
| 1966 | 172 | #751 | — | — |
| 1965 | 200 | #697 | — | — |
| 1964 | 260 | #634 | — | — |
| 1963 | 240 | #654 | — | — |
| 1962 | 290 | #581 | — | — |
| 1961 | 361 | #514 | — | — |
| 1960 | 361 | #508 | — | — |
| 1959 | 335 | #530 | — | — |
| 1958 | 328 | #537 | — | — |
| 1957 | 357 | #503 | — | — |
| 1956 | 330 | #515 | — | — |
| 1955 | 382 | #465 | — | — |
| 1954 | 431 | #418 | — | — |
| 1953 | 432 | #415 | — | — |
| 1952 | 439 | #396 | 5 | #4,184 |
| 1951 | 483 | #367 | — | — |
| 1950 | 474 | #368 | — | — |
| 1949 | 488 | #357 | — | — |
| 1948 | 503 | #346 | — | — |
| 1947 | 605 | #315 | — | — |
| 1946 | 528 | #326 | — | — |
| 1945 | 462 | #313 | — | — |
| 1944 | 507 | #299 | — | — |
| 1943 | 523 | #305 | — | — |
| 1942 | 533 | #297 | — | — |
| 1941 | 500 | #289 | — | — |
| 1940 | 479 | #287 | — | — |
| 1939 | 512 | #273 | 5 | #3,897 |
| 1938 | 582 | #261 | 6 | #3,477 |
| 1937 | 493 | #280 | 6 | #3,472 |
| 1936 | 521 | #266 | — | — |
| 1935 | 588 | #258 | — | — |
| 1934 | 539 | #266 | 5 | #4,129 |
| 1933 | 569 | #256 | — | — |
| 1932 | 555 | #268 | — | — |
| 1931 | 537 | #268 | 5 | #4,241 |
| 1930 | 564 | #264 | 9 | #2,979 |
| 1929 | 624 | #253 | — | — |
| 1928 | 635 | #256 | 7 | #3,650 |
| 1927 | 654 | #259 | 5 | #4,698 |
| 1926 | 689 | #250 | 8 | #3,339 |
| 1925 | 791 | #233 | — | — |
| 1924 | 783 | #234 | — | — |
| 1923 | 791 | #230 | 7 | #3,763 |
| 1922 | 757 | #238 | — | — |
| 1921 | 782 | #233 | — | — |
| 1920 | 803 | #231 | 6 | #4,204 |
| 1919 | 897 | #208 | 5 | #4,692 |
| 1918 | 850 | #216 | 5 | #4,700 |
| 1917 | 807 | #214 | 5 | #4,476 |
| 1916 | 912 | #196 | 5 | #4,417 |
| 1915 | 781 | #212 | — | — |
| 1914 | 760 | #178 | 7 | #2,864 |
| 1913 | 656 | #178 | 6 | #2,753 |
| 1912 | 637 | #164 | 6 | #2,499 |
| 1911 | 509 | #159 | 6 | #1,709 |
| 1910 | 569 | #144 | — | — |
| 1909 | 472 | #150 | — | — |
| 1908 | 489 | #141 | — | — |
| 1907 | 492 | #135 | — | — |
| 1906 | 520 | #122 | — | — |
| 1905 | 607 | #105 | — | — |
| 1904 | 483 | #123 | — | — |
| 1903 | 523 | #110 | — | — |
| 1902 | 556 | #108 | — | — |
| 1901 | 488 | #110 | — | — |
| 1900 | 676 | #98 | 5 | #1,474 |
| 1899 | 544 | #100 | 6 | #1,038 |
| 1898 | 598 | #100 | — | — |
| 1897 | 545 | #98 | 5 | #1,200 |
| 1896 | 498 | #101 | — | — |
| 1895 | 573 | #92 | — | — |
| 1894 | 584 | #90 | — | — |
| 1893 | 516 | #94 | — | — |
| 1892 | 582 | #84 | — | — |
| 1891 | 569 | #75 | — | — |
| 1890 | 571 | #80 | — | — |
| 1889 | 525 | #77 | — | — |
| 1888 | 633 | #70 | — | — |
| 1887 | 525 | #69 | — | — |
| 1886 | 490 | #73 | — | — |
| 1885 | 457 | #73 | — | — |
| 1884 | 494 | #69 | — | — |
| 1883 | 409 | #72 | — | — |
| 1882 | 487 | #63 | — | — |
| 1881 | 416 | #63 | — | — |
| 1880 | 404 | #64 | — | — |
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).