Sunny

Where Sunny comes from

The dictionaries list Sunny as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,360 among girls, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2024
    Peak, #370
    846 babies named Sunny — more than any year before or since.
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.