Sal
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Sal
The sidekick in almost every movie or TV show with an Italo-American setting, this once common name has now fallen onto the endangered list, given to fewer than 50 baby boys each year.
Sal for girls
Sal is a cute spin on the trend of boyish nicknames for girls, rarer than Sam or Ali.
Pronounced SAL.
As of October 2026, Sal ranked #6735 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #702 in 1958.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Famous Sals
- Sal ViscusoBoy
American actor
- Salvatore "Sal" ZizzoBoy
American soccer player
- Salvatore "Sal" MineoBoy
American actor
- Silvio "Sal" BuscemaBoy
American comic book artist
- Salvatore Joseph "Sal" MarchianoBoy
American sportscaster
- Salvatore "Sal" IaconoBoy
American comedian
- Sal Valentino (born Salvatore Willard Spampinato)Boy
American musician of The Beau Brummels
- Salvatore Edward Anthony "Sal" Vulcano Jr.Boy
American comedian from The Tenderloins and Impractical Jokers
Sal in pop culture
- Sal RomanoBoy
character on TV's "Mad Men"
- Sal ParadiseBoy
character in "On the Road"
- SalBoy
character in "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
- Sal ManellaBoy
character in "Ace Attorney" game series
- SalBoy
character on animated series "Futurama"
- Sal MinellaBoy
Muppet chimpanzee
- SalBoy
alias of Big Pussy Bonpensiero on TV's The Sopranos
- Salvatore "Sal" MaroniBoy
character in Batman comics
- Salvatore "Sal" TessioBoy
character in The Godfather series
- SAL 9000Boy
a fictional computer in 2010: Odyssey Two
- Sal MustelaBoy
character in video game Need For Speed Carbon
- Sal "Sally Face"Boy
main playable character in the dark adventure video game "Sally Face"
- SalGirl
in Bosnian, means "scarf" (pronounced: shal)
- SalGirl
the Spanish word for "salt"
- Salamanca "Sal" HiddleGirl
main character of "Walk Two Moons"
- SalGirl
main character in the children's book, written by Robert McCloskey, 'Blueberries for Sal'
- SalGirl
recurring character on TV's "Modern Family"