Sailor — #1340 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sailor

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,396 babies named Sailor between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sailor currently holds the #1340 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 245 babies received it in a single year. Sailor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 646 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sailor performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,730 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sailor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 325 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sailor in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sailor in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,396 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.