How rare is the name Sallie?

12,711 people in the United States have the first name Sallie, about 1 in 23,761. It ranks #2,113 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SALLIE

#2,113

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,711
About
1 in 23,761
This common or more
78.6%
Who bears it

Of the 12,711 people named Sallie, 68.7% reported their origin as White, 24.9% as Black and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Sallie peaked in 1916, when 917 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1916
Births that year
917
In 2025*
33 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 50,096 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Sallie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #106. The largest share of babies named Sallie, 36.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1064,840
1890s#1285,591
1900s#1635,311
1910s#3307,423
1920s#4327,342
1930s#4885,496
1940s#5905,128
1950s#8033,996
1960s#1,1692,284
1970s#2,104882
1980s#2,845659
1990s#4,567451
2000s#7,295319
2010s#9,376239
2020s#9,544135
Before 190122.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2736.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4519.5%
Baby boom 1946–6415.2%
Generation X 1965–803.5%
Millennials 1981–961.8%
Generation Z 1997–121%
2013 and later0.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Sallie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sallie has been most common in South Carolina (6.5×), Mississippi (5.4×), and Alabama (4.8×), and least common in Arizona (0.08×).

30,232 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Sallie

#2,111 Nicola · 12,714#2,112 Knox · 12,713#2,114 Lynnette · 12,708#2,115 Kamila · 12,706

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sallie, most common first.

#17,167 Salli · 647#19,413 Sallye · 545#27,176 Sallee · 338#44,236 Salle · 157

Also a last name

As a last name, Sallie ranks #26,403 of 156,621, with 974 people. See Sallie as a last name

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