Sunny

Where Sunny comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Sunny.

  • Vowel-ended
Sunny through the years
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,360 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Sunny Deol born
    Indian actor and politician
  3. 1981
    Sunny Leone born
    American-Canadian actress, model and former pornographic actress
  4. 1997
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  5. 2024
    Peak, #370
    846 babies named Sunny, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Sunil.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Sunita.
  • A diminutive of the unisex given name Sundeep.
Namesakes
  • Sunny Leone · American-Canadian actress, model and former pornographic actress, born 1981
  • Sunny Deol · Indian actor and politician, born 1956
  • Sunny Lane · American pornographic actress, born 1980
  • Sunny Mabrey · American actress, model and comedian, born 1975
  • Sunny Dhinsa · Canadian professional and amateur wrestler, born 1993

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.