Sally
Sally is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 223 births. Its best rank was 52nd, in 1939.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2230.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19475,265 births
- Best rank
- #52in 1939
- Since 1880
- 205,026people given the name
The story in the numbers
205,026 girls have been named Sally in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 5,265 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 223 births in 2024, against 5,265 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 23%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 26 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sally | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,010 | |
| 1890s | 1,668 | |
| 1900s | 3,294 | |
| 1910s | 9,301 | |
| 1920s | 13,472 | |
| 1930s | 34,680 | |
| 1940s | 45,344 | |
| 1950s | 46,706 | |
| 1960s | 24,344 | |
| 1970s | 9,275 | |
| 1980s | 6,127 | |
| 1990s | 4,166 | |
| 2000s | 2,582 | |
| 2010s | 2,095 | |
| 2020s | 962 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Sally was the 70th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Sally
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Robertapeak 1953
- Nanciepeak 1953
- Suepeak 1947
- Nancypeak 1947
- Constancepeak 1950
- Peggiepeak 1948
- Dixiepeak 1938
- Vonniepeak 1959
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.