Sallie

Where Sallie comes from

A less common spelling of Sally; see -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Sallie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #64 among girls — 404 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #63
    487 babies named Sallie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1947
    Sallie W. Chisholm born
    American oceanographer, marine biologist
  4. 1953
    Sallie Baliunas born
    American astronomer
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #654.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Sarah.
Namesakes
  • Sallie W. Chisholm · American oceanographer, marine biologist, born 1947
  • Sallie Baliunas · American astronomer, born 1953
  • Sallie Harmsen · Dutch actress, born 1989
  • Sallie McFague · American feminist and theologian, 1933–2019
  • Sallie Krawcheck · American businesswoman, born 1964

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.