How Many People Are Named Sallie?
people named Sallie are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 27,864 people in the US has this name
Based on 50,096 babies named Sallie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
917 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of SARAH.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Sallie in English. Counting Sallie and these spellings together, about 131,712 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Sallie (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Sallie alive today is about 66 years old, and 75% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 59 and 80 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Sallie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1916, to 917 babies. In 2025, 33 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Sallie never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #63, in 1881 to 1882, and it was in the top 100 in 20 years between 1880 and 1900. In 2025 it ranked #4,339.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,339 |
| Best rank | #63 (1881 to 1882) |
| Years in the top 100 | 20 (1880 to 1900) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #192 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Sallie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Sallie were born in North Carolina than in any other state: about 902 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sallie was given 4.9 times as often in South Carolina, 3.9 times in Georgia and 3.8 times in North Carolina.
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