Sona
The girl's name Sona has been in the national records since 1923, with 1,443 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,712th. About 1,300 Sonas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sona
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,443
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 3,712th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,712th
- First recorded
- 1923
How old the living Sonas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,443 babies given the name since 1923, about 1,300 are alive — 87 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Armenian
Borrowed from Armenian Սոնա.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sonas
- Sona Jobarteh (born 1983)Gambian musician
- Sona Mohapatra (born 1978)Indian singer
- Soňa Červená (1925–2023)Czech operatic mezzo-soprano
People named Sona with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sona is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sona is most concentrated in California (9.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Sona peaked:
Sona elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Sona | 230 | 3,236th |
| England and Wales girls | Sona | 101 | 2,292nd |
| Switzerland girls | Sona | 19 | 1,057th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sona: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Sona | 17 | 0.001% | 840th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Sona | 2 | 0.000% | 577th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Sona among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Sona | 26 | 29 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Sona lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 210 women called Sona were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rioja, La | Sona | 5 | 0.030 | 1,693 |
| Girona | Sona | 12 | 0.029 | 1,824 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Sona | 21 | 0.020 | 2,425 |
| Valencia/València | Sona | 28 | 0.020 | 2,114 |
| Barcelona | Sona | 52 | 0.017 | 2,492 |
| Balears, Illes | Sona | 9 | 0.014 | 3,180 |
Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Sona against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.