Salli
Salli is a name with a single cultural origin: Finnish.
- Finnish
Meaning & Origin of Salli
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Salli is a name with a single cultural origin: Finnish.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Finnish
The Story of Salli
Salli first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1938, with 9 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1956: 31 births, good for #1,930 nationwide. About 34% of every Salli on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Salli last appeared in the published SSA data in 1991, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 679 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1930s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Salli
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About the name Salli
Salli is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1938 and has accumulated 679 births in the dataset. Salli's peak popularity came in 1956 when it ranked #1,930. Use the chart and map above to compare Salli's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.