Sonni
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Given to girls 89.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1989 · 33 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 536since 1966
Sonni over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
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| 2012 | — | #12,274 | 5 | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | — | |
| 2006 | — | #12,055 | 5 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
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| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
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| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1966
The first year at least five girls were named Sonni! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sonni is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Sonni in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Sonni
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,411 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #8,860)
- 891 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #8,860)
- 1,288 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1989 at #3,165 (33 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 55,865
- Highest: 1 in 55,865 girls born in 1989 were named Sonni (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
- 29.3% of all girls named Sonni (157) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2014
- Mostly boys until 2013, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #6,042 (1967) | #6,692 |
| 1970s | 60 | #4,492 (1970) | #6,999 |
| 1980s | 157 | #3,165 (1989) | #5,648 |
| 1990s | 105 | #4,230 (1990) | #9,315 |
| 2000s | 56 | #11,020 (2001) | #12,870 |
| 2010s | 72 | #7,988 (2016) | #11,419 |
| 2020s | 70 | #6,680 (2023) | #8,855 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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