Entry № 9106 · English origin

Sally Sally — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAL-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Princess (Sally Ride, first American woman in space)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "princess (sally ride, first american woman in space)".

Sally is the English diminutive of Sarah — from the Hebrew Sarah ("princess"). Sally Hemings (1773-1835) — enslaved woman of Thomas Jefferson; DNA testing in 1998 confirmed they had at least one child together.

Princess (Sally Ride, first American woman in space) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Sally
Transliteration
Sally
Pronunciation
/ ˈsæl.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sally stands.

Sally does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sallys before her.

Real people
Sally Ride
First American woman in space.
1951 – 2012
Sally Field
American Oscar actress.
born 1946
Sally Hemings
Enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.
1773 – 1835
In fiction
Sally
When Harry Met Sally...
1989

Names connected to Sally.

The number behind Sally.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sally reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.