Entry № 9071 · English origin

Sailor Sailor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAY-lor /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Seafarer (Sailor Brinkley Cook; modern word-name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "seafarer (sailor brinkley cook; modern word-name)".

Sailor is from the Middle English saillen — to sail. Sailor (1973) — Erika Eleniak film. Sailor Lee Brinkley-Cook — full name. Sailor Sparx — modern American figure. Lady Sailor — Pinafore.

Seafarer (Sailor Brinkley Cook; modern word-name) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Sailor
Transliteration
Sailor
Pronunciation
/ ˈseɪ.lər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sailor stands.

Sailor does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sailors before her.

Real people
Sailor Brinkley Cook
American model + Christie Brinkley's daughter.
born 1998
In fiction
Sailor Moon
Japanese manga + anime.
1991

Names connected to Sailor.

The number behind Sailor.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sailor reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.