Sal

boys:

3.6k births since 1909

#2054 (55th percentile)

overall:

3.6k births since 1909

#4545 (41st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sal".

1909 2023 19092023

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,638
Peak Births
114
Peak Year
1958
First Recorded
1909
Peak Percentile
16.3%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#265
Current Rank
#907
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sal

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sal. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 87.8% confident that Sal is pronounced as sal. The next most likely pronunciation is sahl, at 12.2% confidence.

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87.8%
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12.2%
sal (1 syllable)
Verified
87.8% confidence
S AE1 L
sahl (1 syllable)
12.2% confidence
S AA1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Sal. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Sal, please vote using the thumbs up button.

sawl (1 syllable)
4 names 53.6k births
S AO1 L
sayl (1 syllable)
4 names 369 births
S EY1 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S AE1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.