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)
The name Sally is the #382 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 205,446 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #194 (96.6% percentile) for all time with 204,799 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,940 (14.0% percentile) for all time with 647 births since 1913.
Sally has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1913 for boys).
The name Sally has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sally reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 91.2% percentile (ranked #52) with 3,742 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 3,748 births per million (ranked 91.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sally ranks #782 for girls (17.4% percentile) with 97 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sally reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #503) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sally".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sally. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sally is pronounced as SA-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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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.
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