Sailor
#1,132 for girls in 2025, 206 births · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to girls 84.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 243 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,603since 1998
Sailor over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,132 | 206 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #1,341 | 170 | #2,715 | 48 |
| 2023 | #1,075 | 230 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #1,295 | 182 | #2,648 | 50 |
| 2021 | #1,148 | 213 | #3,074 | 39 |
| 2020 | #1,085 | 225 | #3,074 | 37 |
| 2019 | #1,156 | 208 | #2,766 | 45 |
| 2018 | #1,413 | 158 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #1,055 | 243 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #1,064 | 245 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #1,092 | 237 | #2,722 | 44 |
| 2014 | #1,221 | 200 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #1,587 | 135 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #1,918 | 103 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #1,817 | 111 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #2,167 | 90 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #2,462 | 77 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #2,757 | 64 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #2,808 | 52 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,782 | 49 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #8,479 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sailor! It came in at #8,584, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sailor
- 209 spots since 2024 (#1,341 → #1,132)
- 47 spots since 2020 (#1,085 → #1,132)
- 40 spots since 2015 (#1,092 → #1,132)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2017 at #1,055 (243 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,976 girls born in 2023 were named Sailor (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,802 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,055 in 2017, was only 1 in 7,105 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.0% of all girls named Sailor (1,730) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1997, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 59 | #2,782 (1999) | #5,683 |
| 2000s | 588 | #2,286 (2009) | #2,852 |
| 2010s | 1,730 | #1,055 (2017) | #1,449 |
| 2020s | 1,226 | #1,075 (2023) | #1,179 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sailor in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,105 of them was named Sailor, which outranked 94.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,051Mattie245
- #1,051Sally245
- #1,054Ciara244
- #1,055Sailor243
- #1,055Giavanna243
- #1,055Sharon243
- #1,058Addalyn242
- #1,058Alianna242
- #1,058Aubrianna242
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 46,274 of them was named Sailor, which outranked 79.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,891Xavior41
- #2,891Zidane41
- #2,891Zyir41
- #2,951Sailor40
- #2,951Adil40
- #2,951Advith40
- #2,951Akshay40
- #3,006Abhay39
- #3,006Abisai39
- #3,006Adel39
Tied with 54 names at #2,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.