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The first name 
Salley

Salley is a first name for girls.

Salley – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Salley has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Salley. That means that a girl named Salley is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Salley.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Salley

Salley -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Salley. Girls named Salley have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,244 Salley ranked higher than ever in 1894. By comparison, there have been 91 years in which the first name Salley has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Salley only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Salley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Salley -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Salley is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Salley can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Salley. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Salley living in one state or another (if your name is Salley and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Salley is in South Carolina, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in South Carolina, only 0.00023% of all female residents are named Salley – that’s just one in 440,427! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 women with that name. So, if your name is Salley, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Salley has 6 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.

With six letters, the name Salley is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.

Other names with 
S, a, l, l, e and y

If you take all the letters in the name Salley – S, a, l, l, e and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ellysa or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Salley

If your name is Salley and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Salley

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Salley, you can simply say:

Sun

Apple

Lion

Lion

Elephant

Yoyo

This is how the name Salley is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Salley in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Salley

Salley

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Salley

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Salley is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
A
L
L
E
Y

Have you ever waved the name Salley

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

S
A
L
L
E
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Salley sounds like this: