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Sonni

Sonni reached its high-water mark in 1989 at number 3,165, and has been recorded 600 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 590 Sonnis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Sonni boys named Sonni

By the numbers

Total US births
600
Estimated living today
590
Median age today
30
Peak year
1989
Best rank
3,165th
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1966
Girls / boys
536 / 64

How old the living Sonnis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 600 babies given the name since 1966, about 590 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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 Sonni is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1989

The most popular girls’ names the year Sonni peaked:

All the names of 1989

Sonni elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Sonni 161 1,620th
France boys Sonni 20 5,394th
Scotland boys Sonni 6 638th

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.

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Sonni against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.