Sale

Sale is the 9,213th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,398 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 88,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,398
Rank: 9,213th
How common: 1 in 88,000
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

From Old English sealh (“willow tree”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sale described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Sale

Jamie Salé (born 1977)Canadian pair skater
Chris Sale (born 1989)American professional baseball player
Tim Sale (1956–2022)American comic artist

People named Sale with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sale

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.