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How popular is “Sally” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sally” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sally” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sally” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sally” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sally” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sally” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sally” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 80 0.000397054 80 100%
1881 79 0.000409989 79 100%
1882 95 0.00042883 95 100%
1883 73 0.000336489 73 100%
1884 95 0.000390206 95 100%
1885 107 0.000444253 107 100%
1886 104 0.000407338 104 100%
1887 112 0.000452723 112 100%
1888 142 0.000474165 142 100%
1889 123 0.000425685 123 100%
1890 154 0.000510947 154 100%
1891 115 0.000401154 115 100%
1892 160 0.000478506 160 100%
1893 134 0.000412025 134 100%
1894 168 0.000496029 168 100%
1895 162 0.000461512 162 100%
1896 185 0.000517506 185 100%
1897 206 0.000593734 206 100%
1898 199 0.000521687 199 100%
1899 185 0.000545346 185 100%
1900 287 0.000637412 287 100%
1901 214 0.000618833 214 100%
1902 266 0.000687813 266 100%
1903 288 0.000755509 288 100%
1904 278 0.000688997 278 100%
1905 303 0.000714754 303 100%
1906 358 0.000835568 358 100%
1907 387 0.000831561 387 100%
1908 443 0.000906581 443 100%
1909 470 0.000919362 470 100%
1910 553 0.00093616 553 100%
1911 535 0.000830387 535 100%
1912 821 0.00083092 821 100%
1913 888 0.000780927 879 9 98%
1914 1065 0.000751936 1065 100%
1915 1127 0.000615032 1121 6 99%
1916 1226 0.000633783 1221 5 99%
1917 1038 0.000517254 1029 9 98%
1918 1094 0.000503889 1086 8 99%
1919 991 0.000469614 991 100%
1920 965 0.000426492 958 7 99%
1921 891 0.000381665 891 100%
1922 972 0.000424611 972 100%
1923 1004 0.000436051 999 5 99%
1924 1153 0.000484126 1145 8 99%
1925 1317 0.000564436 1310 7 99%
1926 1474 0.000642013 1464 10 99%
1927 1640 0.000707092 1630 10 99%
1928 1897 0.000839032 1891 6 99%
1929 2220 0.001012699 2212 8 99%
1930 2556 0.001149649 2542 14 99%
1931 2570 0.001221258 2557 13 99%
1932 2929 0.001387303 2917 12 99%
1933 3164 0.001582438 3146 18 99%
1934 3738 0.001799871 3725 13 99%
1935 3726 0.00178286 3711 15 99%
1936 3655 0.00175926 3635 20 99%
1937 3951 0.001854346 3925 26 99%
1938 4290 0.001938918 4278 12 99%
1939 4259 0.001932885 4244 15 99%
1940 3823 0.001660236 3803 20 99%
1941 3986 0.001636004 3965 21 99%
1942 4678 0.001712413 4655 23 99%
1943 4684 0.001659487 4659 25 99%
1944 4402 0.001636383 4388 14 99%
1945 3981 0.001500616 3981 100%
1946 4857 0.001520042 4843 14 99%
1947 5279 0.001465444 5265 14 99%
1948 5022 0.001454591 5012 10 100%
1949 4783 0.001372542 4773 10 100%
1950 4876 0.001391808 4870 6 100%
1951 5149 0.001397765 5138 11 100%
1952 5047 0.001328856 5037 10 100%
1953 5194 0.001347815 5183 11 100%
1954 5083 0.001276909 5078 5 100%
1955 4698 0.001170089 4688 10 100%
1956 4356 0.001056503 4346 10 100%
1957 4005 0.000953085 3993 12 99%
1958 4320 0.001045017 4305 15 99%
1959 4077 0.000980521 4068 9 100%
1960 3767 0.000906877 3755 12 99%
1961 3466 0.000836733 3460 6 100%
1962 3186 0.000789518 3176 10 99%
1963 2755 0.000696023 2744 11 99%
1964 2718 0.000699145 2708 10 99%
1965 2326 0.000641576 2318 8 99%
1966 1839 0.000529109 1834 5 99%
1967 1638 0.000482489 1638 100%
1968 1412 0.000417948 1403 9 99%
1969 1315 0.000378382 1308 7 99%
1970 1256 0.000348259 1247 9 99%
1971 1061 0.000309117 1061 100%
1972 908 0.000288897 908 100%
1973 951 0.000315226 951 100%
1974 964 0.000317105 957 7 99%
1975 956 0.00031662 949 7 99%
1976 906 0.000298586 899 7 98%
1977 789 0.000248387 789 100%
1978 779 0.000245442 779 100%
1979 735 0.00022092 735 100%
1980 746 0.000216577 740 6 98%
1981 718 0.000207552 713 5 99%
1982 633 0.000180447 633 100%
1983 660 0.000190568 660 100%
1984 615 0.000176281 615 100%
1985 567 0.000158863 567 100%
1986 592 0.000166429 592 100%
1987 533 0.000147825 528 5 98%
1988 543 0.000146954 543 100%
1989 536 0.000139422 536 100%
1990 555 0.000140418 549 6 98%
1991 536 0.000137603 530 6 98%
1992 501 0.000130426 496 5 98%
1993 445 0.000118028 445 100%
1994 399 0.000107326 399 100%
1995 390 0.000106495 390 100%
1996 365 0.000100077 365 100%
1997 337 0.000092946 337 100%
1998 328 0.000089174 328 100%
1999 327 0.000088525 327 100%
2000 332 0.000087833 332 100%
2001 301 0.000080408 301 100%
2002 263 0.000070353 263 100%
2003 226 0.000059437 226 100%
2004 265 0.000069355 265 100%
2005 244 0.000063462 244 100%
2006 244 0.000061676 244 100%
2007 253 0.000063287 253 100%
2008 227 0.000057751 227 100%
2009 227 0.000059421 227 100%
2010 214 0.000057905 214 100%
2011 212 0.000057958 212 100%
2012 208 0.000056872 208 100%
2013 218 0.000059797 218 100%
2014 209 0.000056389 209 100%
2015 222 0.000059985 222 100%
2016 211 0.000057514 211 100%
2017 245 0.000068509 245 100%
2018 195 0.000055462 195 100%
2019 161 0.000046385 161 100%
2020 200 0.00005987 200 100%
2021 192 0.000056671 192 100%
2022 176 0.000052023 176 100%
2023 171 0.000051643 171 100%
2024 223 0.000066997 223 100%

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