Sunni
- #1,942 for girls in 2025, 99 births
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Given to girls 97.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 70 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,566since 1949
Sunni over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Sunni has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,942 | 99 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #1,965 | 100 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #2,021 | 96 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #2,929 | 57 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #2,752 | 61 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,657 | 30 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | — | |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,216 | 42 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,892 | 27 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #3,036 | 37 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,022 | 37 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,278 | 52 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,986 | 60 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,493 | 41 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,910 | 58 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,657 | 36 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,272 | 42 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,790 | 62 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,657 | 69 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,147 | 46 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,341 | 38 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,482 | 70 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,854 | 49 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,680 | 26 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,035 | 41 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,585 | 26 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | — | |
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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1949
The first year at least five girls were named Sunni! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1950, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Sunni is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · girls
- Louisiana#677 · 1 in 2,728
- Georgia#1,075 · 1 in 5,651
- Pennsylvania#1,392 · 1 in 9,338
- Texas#1,790 · 1 in 13,379
- Florida#1,887 · 1 in 14,460
Best ever in a state: #544 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #677 | 6 | 1 in 2,728 |
| Georgia | #1,075 | 8 | 1 in 5,651 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,392 | 5 | 1 in 9,338 |
| Texas | #1,790 | 12 | 1 in 13,379 |
| Florida | #1,887 | 6 | 1 in 14,460 |
| California | #1,948 | 10 | 1 in 16,172 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 278 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,942)
- 526 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #1,942)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1976 at #1,482 (70 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 16 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 13,172
- Highest: 1 in 13,172 girls born in 2024 were named Sunni (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,235 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,482 in 1976, was only 1 in 20,930 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
- 21.2% of all girls named Sunni (545) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 80 | #3,482 (1951) | #4,152 |
| 1960s | 115 | #2,585 (1969) | #4,184 |
| 1970s | 377 | #1,482 (1976) | #2,375 |
| 1980s | 524 | #1,657 (1980) | #2,104 |
| 1990s | 309 | #3,022 (1990) | #3,626 |
| 2000s | 249 | #3,216 (2000) | #5,398 |
| 2010s | 362 | #2,752 (2019) | #4,186 |
| 2020s | 545 | #1,664 (2024) | #2,165 |
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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