Sal
Recorded 1909–2025 · United States
Sal was most popular in 1958, when 114 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,628 that year. In 2025 it ranked #13,540, with 13 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,663 people named Sal.
Sal over time
How old is the name Sal?
Sal first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1909, which makes it about 116 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 114 of the 117 years since.
How many people are named Sal?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,663 American births named Sal between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,258 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Sal in 2025?
13 American babies were named Sal in 2025, ranking #13,540 that year.
Is Sal getting more or less popular?
Sal is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 12 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Sal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Sal is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 3,663 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Sal?
Roughly 2,258 Americans named Sal are alive today — 62% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 60 years old, and half are between 41 and 68.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Sal is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org