# Sal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /sæl/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,663 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,663 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | 9,707 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9,513 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,966 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,704 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,462 |
| 2016 | 16 | 5,744 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,961 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,545 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,608 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,606 |
| 2021 | 15 | 5,980 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,664 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,804 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7,190 |
| 2025 | 13 | 6,735 |

## People named Sal

- Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
- Sal Zizzo, American soccer player
- Sal Abruscato, American musician
- Sal Bartolo, American boxer (1917–2002)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.