Sala
#10,757 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sala has been given to 285 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #10,757 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Sala, 2025
1 in 368,000
Sala over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sala?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,757
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sala sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Salas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sala was born before 2006 — so the typical Sala is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 21.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 285
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (61).
Is Sala rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,213
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −620
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,477
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.29×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 75.0%
- Peak was 1996 (12)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.6% average annual change
Spellings of Sala
Sala is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 16.1% against Sala's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Sala around the world
Where Sala ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2003–2025#6,226in 2025
- South Australia1992–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sala by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sala
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sala
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.