Sally

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Meaning

Sally or Sallie is an English language feminine given name that originated as a hypocorism for Sarah. Young children often have difficulty in pronouncing the letter r, which resulted in nicknames like Sally that substitute the letter r for l.

From Wikipedia

Sally first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 44 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1975 with 272 babies (rank #46 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Sally

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Sally yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

6,476
Total babies (all years)
44
Years in the data
272
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
195274#93
195385#86
195496#81
195582#89
1956119#75
1957105#77
1958138#65
1959128#69
1960130#87
1961152#81
1962117#87
1963131#82
1964157#71
1965160#72
1966124#82
1967114#89
1968120#88
1969131#91
1970129#89
1971124#88
1972129#92
1973199#63
1974240#57
1975272#46
1976263#46
1977272#43
1978239#47
1979228#53
1980255#45
1981230#53
1982211#58
1983198#58
1984220#52
1985212#53
1986185#61
1987192#63
1988172#70
1989141#86
1990111#92
199384#100
20144#405
20151#2,495
20161#2,439
20171#2,407