Sagal
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAH-gal
- Origin
- Somali
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Sagal is a girls' name of Somali origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Sagal mean?
Somali
A traditional Somali girls' name, used in the UK and US mostly by families of Somali heritage.
Is Sagal a girl's or a boy's name?
Sagal is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sagal in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sagal in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2010. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Sagal in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 12 | #2,083 |
| 2006 | 12 | #1,987 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 10 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | 8 | #2,320 |
| 2002 | 14 | #1,475 |
| 2001 | 16 | #1,325 |
| 2000 | 11 | #1,689 |
| 1999 | 11 | #1,653 |
| 1998 | 10 | #1,815 |
| 1997 | 6 | #2,552 |
| 1996 | 11 | #1,621 |
How popular is Sagal in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Sagal, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Sagal in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sagal in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Sagal
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Saanvi, Prisha, Sanvi, Anya, Priya, Sharvi, Shanvi, Saavi, Arya, Anvi, Shreya, Avneet
More Somali names
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sagal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sagal, updated 20 October 2026.