Sally

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English pet form of Sarah (see Sara) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

Salla
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Salli
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Danish Finish Swedish
Sallie
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Danish Swedish
Sally
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Salkko and Sallukka and Selly

Combinations

For combinations see SALL (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Sally
Genitive: Sallys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Sally
Genitive: Sallyn
Partitive: Sallya
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Sally
Genitive: Sallys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Sally
Genitive: Sallys

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

19 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Sally Alina Ingeborg Salminen-Dührkopf (née Salminen, 25 April 1906 – 18 July 1976), Finnish author
  • Sally Nilsson (born 11 November 1949), Norwegian acress

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 4,420 people were named Sally (percentage of first or only given name: 83 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[9]
3060 4431 3060 4428 0 3
Denmark Denmark[10]
1625
n.a.
1619
n.a.
6
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
1329
n.a.
1329 0 0
Iceland Iceland[12]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
0 5
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
185
n.a.
185
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Sally (f) Sources: [9][10][14][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Sally (f) Sources: [15]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Sally (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Sally (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. details see Name Statistic tables