Sallie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sallie in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sallie in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sallie by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sallie ranks at #4,874. That means there are 4,873 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 30,192 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sallie. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Sallie is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their daughter Sallie. This means that several girls named Sallie have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Sallie has reached its highest rank of 62 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1882. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Sallie one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sallie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Sallie will be Sallie. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Sallie in 2022 – in fact 21 to be precise, confirming Sallie is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #5,090 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2009, when only 15 baby girls were named Sallie.
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 Sallie 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.
If your name is Sallie 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sallie, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sallie
Sallie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
L
L
I
E
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
I
E
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. Sallie sounds like this:
