Sailor
Sailor is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 170 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1700.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2016245 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1998
- 4,042people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,396 girls have been named Sailor in the United States since 1998, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 245 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2016, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 51%.
Sailor is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are boys (646), most of them born around 2022.
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Sailor was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Sailor
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leenpeak 2024
- Atleypeak 2019
- Liahpeak 2018
- Livpeak 2017
- Raylynnpeak 2017
- Journiepeak 2021
- Arinapeak 2017
- Roguepeak 2017
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.