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Sundra vs Sunnie

American parents have registered 2,754 Sunnies since 1880, against 649 Sundras. Sunnie is still ahead, with 230 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sundra against Sunnie, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sundra Sunnie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 96 years in which either name was published, Sunnie for 62 years and Sundra for 34 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Sundra Sunnie
Total US births 6492,754
Most in one year 25230
Babies in 2025 under 5230
Estimated living today 5102,600
Median age today 6413
Peak year 19532024
Best rank 2,071st girls1,105th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,092nd
First recorded 19381915
Girls / boys 649 / 02,692 / 62

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sundras alive today are over 64; half the Sunnies are over 13. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sundra and Sunnie.