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 | — | |
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| 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.
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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 16,046 of them was named Sunni, which outranked 88.8% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,946Tina101
- #1,946Toni101
- #1,946Zaila101
- #1,965Sunni100
- #1,965Alaska100
- #1,965Alex100
- #1,965Ashtyn100
- #1,984Addalynn99
- #1,984Ameerah99
- #1,984Arlo99
Tied with 18 names at #1,965; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 342,115 of them was named Sunni, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.