girls:
49.9k births since 1880
#576 (90th percentile)
boys:
135 births since 1897
#4451 (3rd percentile)
overall:
50k births since 1880
#1074 (86th percentile)
The name Sallie is the #1,074 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50,043 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #576 (89.9% percentile) for all time with 49,908 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,451 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 135 births since 1897.
Sallie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1897 for boys).
The name Sallie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sallie reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 77.0% percentile (ranked #66) with 3,341 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 4,209 births per million (ranked 72.9% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Sallie ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sallie reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #521) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 52 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1952.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sallie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Sallie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 5 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Sally" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Sally..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sallie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sallie is pronounced as SA-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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