Sally Girl
How popular is Sally?
#1,150 girl name in 2025
201 baby girls were named Sally in the US in 2025, making it the 1150th most popular girl name.
Sally popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,150 for girls (▼ 55 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 201 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-9% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,139 in 2015, #1,165 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1947 (5,265 girls) |
| Highest rank | #52 in 1939 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sally counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sally family of names ranked #871 for girls in 2025 (#865 the year before), with 258 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sally | 201 | 78% |
| Sallie | 33 | 13% |
| Saylee | 14 | 5% |
| Saily | 5 | 2% |
| Sailey | 5 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sally is most popular
Babies named Sally per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Utah: 0.3 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- Alabama: 0.3 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Idaho: 0.2 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- Colorado: 0.2 per 1,000 (23 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.2 per 1,000 (45 girls)
Sally by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,010 | #163 |
| 1890s | 1,668 | #190 |
| 1900s | 3,294 | #151 |
| 1910s | 9,301 | #136 |
| 1920s | 13,472 | #112 |
| 1930s | 34,680 | #52 |
| 1940s | 45,344 | #56 |
| 1950s | 46,706 | #77 |
| 1960s | 24,344 | #123 |
| 1970s | 9,275 | #249 |
| 1980s | 6,127 | #327 |
| 1990s | 4,166 | #449 |
| 2000s | 2,582 | #703 |
| 2010s | 2,095 | #1,051 |
| 2020s | 1,165 | #1,095 |
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Questions
- Is Sally a boy or girl name?
- Sally is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sally were girls.
- How popular is the name Sally?
- 201 baby girls were named Sally in the US in 2025, making it the 1150th most popular girl name.
- When was Sally most popular?
- Sally peaked in 1947, when 5,265 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #52 in 1939.
- How many people are named Sally?
- 205,876 babies have been named Sally in the US since 1880. We estimate about 122,592 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 71.
- Where is Sally most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sally was most common in Utah, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.