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
- 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
Rank among girls' names. Sunni has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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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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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#551 · 1 in 2,106
- Pennsylvania#925 · 1 in 5,148
- Ohio#945 · 1 in 5,200
- North Carolina#1,135 · 1 in 6,603
- Georgia#1,213 · 1 in 6,502
Best ever in a state: #544 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #551 | 5 | 1 in 2,106 |
| Pennsylvania | #925 | 9 | 1 in 5,148 |
| Ohio | #945 | 9 | 1 in 5,200 |
| North Carolina | #1,135 | 7 | 1 in 6,603 |
| Georgia | #1,213 | 7 | 1 in 6,502 |
| Texas | #1,342 | 19 | 1 in 8,598 |
| Florida | #1,882 | 6 | 1 in 14,384 |
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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.
See more about Sunni
- 278 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,942)
- 526 spots since 2020 (#2,468 → #1,942)
- 1,973 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1976 at #1,482 (70 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 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.
Sunni in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 13,172 of them was named Sunni, which outranked 90.6% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,657Kinzley124
- #1,657Maryjane124
- #1,657Saphira124
- #1,664Sunni123
- #1,664Adalie123
- #1,664Ambar123
- #1,664Arie123
- #1,676Diya122
- #1,676Harlowe122
- #1,676Hermione122
Tied with 11 names at #1,664; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 156,626 of them was named Sunni, which outranked 49.2% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,832Zylas12
- #6,832Zyree12
- #6,832Zyrus12
- #7,257Sunni11
- #7,257Aadam11
- #7,257Aadit11
- #7,257Aalijah11
- #7,765Aadil10
- #7,765Aaric10
- #7,765Aarya10
Tied with 507 names at #7,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.