Sal
Sal is a boy's name that peaked in 1958, when it was the 701st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,446th. About 2,200 Sals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Sal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,663
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1958
- Best rank
- 701st
- Rank in 2025
- 6,446th
- First recorded
- 1909
How old the living Sals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,663 babies given the name since 1909, about 2,200 are alive — 61 in every hundred. Roughly 150 of them are children and 750 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sals
- Sal Khan (born 1976)American educator
- Sal Mineo (1939–1976)American actor
- Sal Da Vinci (born 1969)Italian singer-songwriter and actor
- Sal Borgese (born 1937)Italian film actor
- Sal Zizzo (born 1987)American soccer player
- Sal Buscema (1936–2026)American comic book artist
People named Sal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sal is most common
Across the country Sal is recorded 0.71 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Sals are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1958
The most popular boys’ names the year Sal peaked:
Related names
Sal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.