| The girl name Sally [ 2 syll. sal-ly, sa-lly ] is pronounced SAELiy KEY. Sally's origin is Hebrew, and its use, English and French. Sally is a pet form of the English, French, and German Sarah. See also the related form, the Irish, Manx, and Scottish Sorcha. Sally is uncommon as a baby name for girls. At the modest height of its usage in 1938, 0.375% of baby girls were given the name Sally. It ranked at #54 then. The baby name has since experienced a substantial decline in popularity, and is used only on an infrequent scale today. In 2007, within the group of girl names directly linked to Sally, the English, French, and German Sarah was the most popular. Baby names that sound like Sally include the English Scilla, the English Shayla, the Indian Sheela, the English and Irish Sheila, the English Shelia, the English Shelley, the English Shelly, the Indian Shila, the English and Hebrew Shiloh, the Frisian, German, and Scandinavian Silja, the Spanish Soli, the Italian and Spanish Celia, the French Cécile, the French Célia, the English Cilla, the English Sal, the Arabic and Turkish Saliha, the English Shell, the Irish and German Sile, the Portuguese and Spanish Sol, the English Syl, the Polish Sylwia, the English Cecelia, the English, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and Spanish Cecilia, the German Cecilie, and the English Cecily. KEY: Pronunciation for Sally: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"
Details of famous persons named Sally: Actress Sally Field, born 6 November 1946, Pasadena, California. Astronaut Sally Ride, born 26 May 1951, Encino, California. |