Sailor
- #1,132 for girls in 2025, 206 births
- #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
- Given to girls 84.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 243 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,603since 1998
Sailor over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,132 | 206 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #1,341 | 170 | #2,715 | 48 |
| 2023 | #1,075 | 230 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #1,295 | 182 | #2,648 | 50 |
| 2021 | #1,148 | 213 | #3,074 | 39 |
| 2020 | #1,085 | 225 | #3,074 | 37 |
| 2019 | #1,156 | 208 | #2,766 | 45 |
| 2018 | #1,413 | 158 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #1,055 | 243 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #1,064 | 245 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #1,092 | 237 | #2,722 | 44 |
| 2014 | #1,221 | 200 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #1,587 | 135 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #1,918 | 103 | #4,862 | 19 |
| 2011 | #1,817 | 111 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #2,167 | 90 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #2,462 | 77 | #4,267 | 23 |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #2,757 | 64 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #2,808 | 52 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,782 | 49 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #8,479 | 6 |
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First appearance
1998
The first year at least five girls were named Sailor! It came in at #8,584, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Sailor is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · girls
- West Virginia#230 · 1 in 725
- Oregon#548 · 1 in 2,175
- Wisconsin#564 · 1 in 2,532
- Utah#605 · 1 in 2,846
- Alabama#716 · 1 in 3,053
Best ever in a state: #230 in West Virginia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| West Virginia | #230 | 7 | 1 in 725 |
| Oregon | #548 | 6 | 1 in 2,175 |
| Wisconsin | #564 | 8 | 1 in 2,532 |
| Utah | #605 | 6 | 1 in 2,846 |
| Alabama | #716 | 6 | 1 in 3,053 |
| South Carolina | #773 | 5 | 1 in 3,658 |
| Missouri | #811 | 6 | 1 in 4,050 |
| Tennessee | #813 | 8 | 1 in 4,009 |
| Georgia | #915 | 10 | 1 in 4,521 |
| Indiana | #916 | 6 | 1 in 4,651 |
| Arizona | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 5,644 |
| Washington | #1,046 | 5 | 1 in 5,772 |
| Florida | #1,055 | 14 | 1 in 6,197 |
| Michigan | #1,061 | 6 | 1 in 5,955 |
| Texas | #1,154 | 23 | 1 in 6,980 |
| North Carolina | #1,281 | 6 | 1 in 7,747 |
| California | #1,323 | 18 | 1 in 8,985 |
| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 15,666 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 209 spots since 2024 (#1,341 → #1,132)
- 47 spots since 2020 (#1,085 → #1,132)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2017 at #1,055 (243 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,976
- Highest: 1 in 6,976 girls born in 2023 were named Sailor (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,802 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,055 in 2017, was only 1 in 7,105 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 48.0% of all girls named Sailor (1,730) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
- Mostly boys until 1997, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 59 | #2,782 (1999) | #5,683 |
| 2000s | 588 | #2,286 (2009) | #2,852 |
| 2010s | 1,730 | #1,055 (2017) | #1,449 |
| 2020s | 1,226 | #1,075 (2023) | #1,179 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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