Sunday

Where Sunday comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sunday.

  • Vowel-ended
Sunday through the years
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #4,434 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1974
    Sunday Oliseh born
    Nigerian footballer and manager
  4. 1988
    Sunday Mba born
    Nigerian footballer
  5. 2025
    Peak, #946
    273 babies named Sunday, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Sunday Oliseh · Nigerian footballer and manager, born 1974
  • Sunday Mba · Nigerian footballer, born 1988
  • Sunday Bada · athletics competitor, 1969–2011
  • Sunday Adelaja · Founder of the Embassy of God, born 1967
  • Sunday Uti · Nigerian sprinter, born 1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.