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Female Name
Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
English pet form of Sarah (see Sara) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See also Salkko and Sallukka and Selly
Combinations
For combinations see SALL (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Sally
|
Genitive: |
Sallys
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Sally
|
Genitive: |
Sallyn
|
Partitive: |
Sallya
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Sally
|
Genitive: |
Sallys
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Sally
|
Genitive: |
Sallys
|
Name Day
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
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[9] |
|
3060 |
4431 |
3060 |
4428 |
0 |
3 |
Denmark[10] |
|
1625 |
n.a. |
1619 |
n.a. |
6 |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
1329 |
n.a. |
1329 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[12] |
|
5 |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
0 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [9][10][14][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Sally (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables