Meaning not yet researched.
Sally: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 201 in 2025. Its best rank was #52 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #52 in 1939; #1,158 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sally in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,158 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #52.
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Sally: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 201 girls in 2025. Peak: #52 in 1939 · most girls in one year: 5,265 (1947).
In 2025, 201 US girls were named Sally, making it the 1,158th most common girls’ name of the year, down 62 places from #1,096 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 225 girls named Sally in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #52, reached in 1939. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,265, in 1947. For comparison, it was #1,141 in 2015 and #78 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sally in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 80 babies with the name. In all, 205,876 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 46,805 babies named Sally.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,977 US girls were named Sally; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 245. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,996 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sally ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #611 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sal (3,663 babies since 1880), Sallie (50,096 babies since 1880), Saleh (1,783 babies since 1880) and Sahily (648 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sallye, Salli and Salih 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: Sallye (1,067), Salli (679), Salih (587), Salley (416), Sallee (321), Zaley (205), Salia (173), Zaily (109), Saily (95), Zaely (46), Saly (30), Saleya (16), and more.
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 Sally in the open dataset we use.
Sally is listed as a nickname for Salvador, Sarah.
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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 9 | #611 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #613 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #769 | #886 |
| Alabama | 6 | #807 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #821 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #831 | #1,047 |
| Colorado | 6 | #888 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #976 | #1,156 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,059 | #1,100 |
| New York | 14 | #1,076 | #780 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,178 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,192 | #1,223 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,216 | #1,047 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,221 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,281 | #1,223 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,368 | #932 |
| California | 16 | #1,469 | #948 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,697 | #1,456 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,847 | #1,250 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 201 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2024 | 225 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2023 | 171 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 2022 | 176 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2020 | 200 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 2018 | 195 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 2017 | 245 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 2016 | 211 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 2015 | 222 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 2014 | 209 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 2013 | 218 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2011 | 212 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 2010 | 214 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 2009 | 227 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2008 | 227 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 2007 | 253 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 2006 | 244 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 2005 | 244 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 2004 | 265 | #917 | — | — |
| 2003 | 226 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2002 | 263 | #871 | — | — |
| 2001 | 301 | #787 | — | — |
| 2000 | 332 | #705 | — | — |
| 1999 | 327 | #690 | — | — |
| 1998 | 328 | #691 | — | — |
| 1997 | 337 | #656 | — | — |
| 1996 | 365 | #624 | — | — |
| 1995 | 390 | #586 | — | — |
| 1994 | 399 | #576 | — | — |
| 1993 | 445 | #538 | — | — |
| 1992 | 496 | #495 | 5 | #9,559 |
| 1991 | 530 | #462 | 6 | #8,065 |
| 1990 | 549 | #450 | 6 | #7,936 |
| 1989 | 536 | #453 | — | — |
| 1988 | 543 | #428 | — | — |
| 1987 | 528 | #424 | 5 | #7,923 |
| 1986 | 592 | #390 | — | — |
| 1985 | 567 | #399 | — | — |
| 1984 | 615 | #372 | — | — |
| 1983 | 660 | #345 | — | — |
| 1982 | 633 | #367 | — | — |
| 1981 | 713 | #334 | 5 | #7,088 |
| 1980 | 740 | #327 | 6 | #6,108 |
| 1979 | 735 | #321 | — | — |
| 1978 | 779 | #296 | — | — |
| 1977 | 789 | #304 | — | — |
| 1976 | 899 | #264 | 7 | #4,838 |
| 1975 | 949 | #256 | 7 | #4,699 |
| 1974 | 957 | #265 | 7 | #4,555 |
| 1973 | 951 | #262 | — | — |
| 1972 | 908 | #283 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,061 | #272 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,247 | #249 | 9 | #3,478 |
| 1969 | 1,309 | #231 | 7 | #3,875 |
| 1968 | 1,402 | #216 | 9 | #3,067 |
| 1967 | 1,638 | #193 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,834 | #179 | 5 | #4,431 |
| 1965 | 2,318 | #162 | 8 | #3,202 |
| 1964 | 2,708 | #149 | 10 | #2,816 |
| 1963 | 2,744 | #147 | 11 | #2,648 |
| 1962 | 3,175 | #136 | 10 | #2,817 |
| 1961 | 3,462 | #133 | 6 | #3,998 |
| 1960 | 3,754 | #123 | 12 | #2,519 |
| 1959 | 4,068 | #114 | 9 | #3,003 |
| 1958 | 4,305 | #112 | 15 | #2,159 |
| 1957 | 3,993 | #115 | 12 | #2,472 |
| 1956 | 4,346 | #105 | 10 | #2,768 |
| 1955 | 4,688 | #95 | 10 | #2,727 |
| 1954 | 5,078 | #84 | 5 | #4,285 |
| 1953 | 5,183 | #81 | 11 | #2,512 |
| 1952 | 5,037 | #81 | 10 | #2,653 |
| 1951 | 5,138 | #77 | 11 | #2,479 |
| 1950 | 4,870 | #78 | 6 | #3,627 |
| 1949 | 4,773 | #77 | 10 | #2,587 |
| 1948 | 5,012 | #72 | 10 | #2,591 |
| 1947 | 5,265 | #70 | 14 | #2,150 |
| 1946 | 4,842 | #67 | 14 | #2,015 |
| 1945 | 3,982 | #64 | — | — |
| 1944 | 4,388 | #59 | 14 | #1,969 |
| 1943 | 4,659 | #57 | 25 | #1,428 |
| 1942 | 4,655 | #56 | 23 | #1,488 |
| 1941 | 3,965 | #61 | 21 | #1,522 |
| 1940 | 3,803 | #61 | 20 | #1,560 |
| 1939 | 4,244 | #52 | 15 | #1,862 |
| 1938 | 4,278 | #54 | 12 | #2,163 |
| 1937 | 3,925 | #59 | 26 | #1,340 |
| 1936 | 3,635 | #59 | 20 | #1,535 |
| 1935 | 3,711 | #58 | 15 | #1,907 |
| 1934 | 3,725 | #62 | 13 | #2,105 |
| 1933 | 3,146 | #76 | 18 | #1,697 |
| 1932 | 2,917 | #84 | 12 | #2,301 |
| 1931 | 2,557 | #97 | 13 | #2,199 |
| 1930 | 2,542 | #98 | 14 | #2,157 |
| 1929 | 2,212 | #112 | 8 | #3,206 |
| 1928 | 1,891 | #128 | 6 | #4,083 |
| 1927 | 1,630 | #147 | 10 | #2,878 |
| 1926 | 1,464 | #160 | 10 | #2,878 |
| 1925 | 1,310 | #173 | 7 | #3,683 |
| 1924 | 1,145 | #190 | 8 | #3,459 |
| 1923 | 999 | #201 | 5 | #4,786 |
| 1922 | 972 | #204 | — | — |
| 1921 | 891 | #214 | — | — |
| 1920 | 958 | #203 | 7 | #3,765 |
| 1919 | 991 | #192 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,086 | #184 | 8 | #3,324 |
| 1917 | 1,029 | #184 | 9 | #2,912 |
| 1916 | 1,221 | #162 | 5 | #4,418 |
| 1915 | 1,121 | #163 | 6 | #3,763 |
| 1914 | 1,065 | #139 | — | — |
| 1913 | 879 | #138 | 9 | #2,064 |
| 1912 | 821 | #136 | — | — |
| 1911 | 535 | #151 | — | — |
| 1910 | 553 | #147 | — | — |
| 1909 | 470 | #152 | — | — |
| 1908 | 443 | #154 | — | — |
| 1907 | 387 | #162 | — | — |
| 1906 | 358 | #161 | — | — |
| 1905 | 303 | #173 | — | — |
| 1904 | 278 | #176 | — | — |
| 1903 | 288 | #169 | — | — |
| 1902 | 266 | #175 | — | — |
| 1901 | 214 | #196 | — | — |
| 1900 | 287 | #183 | — | — |
| 1899 | 185 | #203 | — | — |
| 1898 | 199 | #206 | — | — |
| 1897 | 206 | #193 | — | — |
| 1896 | 185 | #206 | — | — |
| 1895 | 162 | #214 | — | — |
| 1894 | 168 | #206 | — | — |
| 1893 | 134 | #226 | — | — |
| 1892 | 160 | #199 | — | — |
| 1891 | 115 | #225 | — | — |
| 1890 | 154 | #193 | — | — |
| 1889 | 123 | #207 | — | — |
| 1888 | 142 | #189 | — | — |
| 1887 | 112 | #189 | — | — |
| 1886 | 104 | #194 | — | — |
| 1885 | 107 | #179 | — | — |
| 1884 | 95 | #186 | — | — |
| 1883 | 73 | #203 | — | — |
| 1882 | 95 | #165 | — | — |
| 1881 | 79 | #170 | — | — |
| 1880 | 80 | #166 | — | — |
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).