girls:
3.2k births since 1998
#3051 (47th percentile)
boys:
597 births since 1997
#3989 (13th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1997
#4444 (43rd percentile)
The name Sailor is the #4,444 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,823 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 42.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,051 (46.6% percentile) for all time with 3,226 births since 1998. For boys, it ranks #3,989 (13.0% percentile) for all time with 597 births since 1997.
Sailor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 1998 for girls).
The name Sailor has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 88.5% of babies named Sailor were girls. Interestingly, until around 1999, the name was more popular for boys (52.4% boys from 1997 to 1998), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (84.6% girls from 1999 to 2023).
For girls, Sailor reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 25.0% percentile (ranked #718) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 131 births per million (ranked 23.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Sailor is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #722 (23.8% percentile) with 131 births per million.
For boys, Sailor reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #877) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 26 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sailor ranks #886 for boys (2.7% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 62.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sailor".
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