Sally-Ann
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səʎiæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sally-Ann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 63K
- USUnited States1 in 240K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sallyann in US United States, IE Ireland, CN China.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sally-Ann counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Sallyann | 2 |
| US United States | 1,386 | 1 in 240K | 1.4K | Sallyann | 181 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 4 | Sally-Ann | 113 |
| AU Australia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 5 | Sally-Ann | 82 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Sally-Ann | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Sally-Ann | 26 |
| IE Ireland | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Sallyann | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sally-Ann Petrieb. 1950GBnot in their usual nameBritish rower
- Sally-Ann Wilsonb. 1959GBnot in their usual nameSecretary-General of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
- Sally-Ann Murrayb. 1961ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African author
- Sally-Ann Halesb. 1965GBnot in their usual nameQC 2012 a Circuit Judge, since 2018
- Sally Ann RobertsUSnot in their usual nameAmerican news anchor
- Sally-Ann FawcettGBnot in their usual nameBritish pageant historian
- Sally-Ann SpencerNZnot in their usual nameBritish scientist and translator working in New Zealand
- Sally-Ann PoulsenAUnot in their usual nameAustralian chemical biologist
- Sally-Ann CooperGBnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Sally-Ann Cryannot in their usual nameresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1975 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1975 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1976 | 7 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1976 | 7 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1958 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1958 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1984 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1984 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1977 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1977 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sally-Ann?
- A machine transcription gives /səʎiæn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Sally-Ann a male or female name?
- Sally-Ann is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sally-Ann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Sally-Ann in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sallyann.
- How common is the name Sally-Ann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,386 people named Sally-Ann in 2020, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sally-Ann?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sally-annThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sally-Ann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.