Sunel vs Sunny
American parents have registered 17,697 Sunnys since 1880, against 14 Sunels. Sunny is still ahead, with 998 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Sunel Sunny
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
Sunny has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2006, when Sunel had 14 and Sunny had 196.
Side by side
| Sunel | Sunny | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 14 | 17,697 |
| Most in one year | 14 | 1,057 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 998 |
| Estimated living today | 14 | 16,000 |
| Median age today | 19 | 18 |
| Peak year | 2006 | 2024 |
| Best rank | 5,781st boys | 370th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 389th |
| First recorded | 2006 | 1900 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 14 | 13,191 / 4,506 |
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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sunel and Sunny.