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Sally
Pronounced /ˈsæl.i/
Rank in 2024
#1,098
Born in 2024
223
Peak year
1947 · #70
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 223 girls were named Sally, about 1 in every 7,234.
- It peaked in 1947 with 5,265 babies, ranked #70.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 205,026 girls have been named Sally since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Sally per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.1Greatest1901–27
- 3.1Silent1928–45
- 2.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 21,677 babies, 1.06 per 1,000. Silent: 64,234 babies, 3.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 82,442 babies, 2.30 per 1,000. Gen X: 18,516 babies, 0.72 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,561 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,208 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,423 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A diminutive lambdacism of Sarah. Compare Hal from Harry and Moll from Mary.
- A diminutive of the female given name Sarah, also used as a formal given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈsæl.i/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Sally, CC BY-SA 4.0.