Sally

girls:

204.8k births since 1880

#194 (97th percentile)

boys:

647 births since 1913

#3940 (14th percentile)

overall:

205.4k births since 1880

#382 (95th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
204,799
Peak Births
5,265
Peak Year
1939
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
91.2%
Current Percentile
17.4%
Peak Rank
#52
Current Rank
#782
Female statistics
Total Births
647
Peak Births
26
Peak Year
1937
First Recorded
1913
Peak Percentile
4.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#404
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sally

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sally. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Sally is pronounced as SA-lee.

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100.0%
SA-lee (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
S AE1 L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SUH-lee (2 syllables)
3 names 1.3k births
S AH1 L IY0
SAH-lee (2 syllables)
6 names 1k births
S AA1 L IY0

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 IY0) 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.