Sunday

Where Sunday comes from

Sunday hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1924
    First appearance
    #4,434 among girls, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1974
    Sunday Oliseh born
    Nigerian footballer and manager
  4. 1988
    Sunday Mba born
    Nigerian footballer
  5. 2025
    Peak, #946
    273 babies named Sunday — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.