Sallie
Sallie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 63rd, in 1881–1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1916912 births
- Best rank
- #63first in 1881
- Since 1880
- 49,928people given the name
The story in the numbers
49,928 girls have been named Sallie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 912 births.
The name has all but left use: 20 births in 2024, against 912 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1910s alone account for 15%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 20 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sallie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 4,840 | |
| 1890s | 5,580 | |
| 1900s | 5,306 | |
| 1910s | 7,378 | |
| 1920s | 7,309 | |
| 1930s | 5,460 | |
| 1940s | 5,128 | |
| 1950s | 3,991 | |
| 1960s | 2,284 | |
| 1970s | 882 | |
| 1980s | 659 | |
| 1990s | 451 | |
| 2000s | 319 | |
| 2010s | 239 | |
| 2020s | 102 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Sallie was the 196th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Sallie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ettapeak 1920
- Mittiepeak 1920
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Idapeak 1918
- Lulapeak 1921
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Vinniepeak 1916
- Lillapeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.