Sala
Sala was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,757 among girls’ names; 285 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sala?
#10,757 among girls’ names, 2025
Sala rose from #14,234 in 2015 to #10,757 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.6 per million.
12 babies in 1996, the peak
Sala peaked in 1996, when 12 girls were given it, #7,477 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,757 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,970 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,884 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,996 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,890 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,137 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,228 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,053 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,850 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,234 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,941 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,046 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,140 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,313 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,266 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,202 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,794 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,055 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,259 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,858 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,344 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,844 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,068 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,625 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,477 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,258 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,272 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,731 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,432 | 3.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,092 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,806 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,364 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,239 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,734 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,187 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,029 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,898 | 5.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,403 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sala, and how old are they?
An estimated 279 Americans named Sala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 8 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 551 people named Sala (452 women and girls, 99 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 226 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 208,874 babies since 1880, Sala is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 361 babies (2.5%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sala
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sala and names like it
- Compare Sala and SallyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSala peaked in 1996.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Sala.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sala alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.